Service Provider Perspectives on Family Violence Interventions (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Treatment of Offenders
Treatment of Offenders
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can be a challenging task for caseworkers and other public officials. In the ileld of intimate violence, the law enforcement system has played a more prominent role in dealing with offenders through a variety of instruments, inclu(ling the use of restraining orclers, anti-stalking legislation, increased sanctions monitoring systems, and manciatect treatment programs.
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other control/monitoring mechanisms has been used to identify ant} treat offenders. In the following presentations, service providers and researchers review a portion of offenders' treatment programs, focusing primarily on cognitive or psychoeducational approaches designed to reduce recidivism among incest offenders and men or parents who are reported for the physical abuse of women and children.
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or other stress reduction techniques (Sanford and Tustin, 19741. represented a promising beginning for treatment of the parental perpetrators of child abuse, but it was too simplistic when the many mitigating factors that correlate with risk of child abuse are consiclered.
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(1YbJ) , through a wltnorawal research design, showed that stress reduction techniques were responsible for a dramatic reduction in migraine headaches in a mother who was at high risk for child abuse.
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They also asked these questions of agency personnel who referred families to the project. Social validation and other program evaluation allows an examination of the larger questions associated with services aimed at the treatment and prevention of child abuse ant!
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Bickett, and I.R. Lutzker 1983 In-home parent training, treatment of migraine headaches, and marital counseling as an ecobehavioral approach to prevent child abuse.
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Polakow, R.~., and D.~. Peabody 1975 Behavioral treatment of child abuse.
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The scarcity of experimental studies in the field! of batterers' treatment programs is a major shortcoming because it is not clear whether the intervention programs for batterers are responsible for changing men's abusive behavior.
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One area that has received little attention in the evaluation of batterers' treatment programs is the assessment of relationships between offenders and the children of battered women. If an intervention program is fully effective, improvements may be seen in the aggressive behavior ant!
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Tolman, R., and L.W. Bennett 1990 A review of research on men who batter.
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Treatment programs for sex offenders should include protocols for baseline assessment, progress evaluation, risk assessment, and discharge. On the basis of data obtained from these protocols, informed judgments can be made about differential prognosis, especially in the area of risk assessment.
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Although risk assessment procedures and scales for sex offenders exist that are empirically informed and reasonably accurate, low base rates of re-offending hamper the overall effectiveness of risk assessment. The base-rate problem is particularly serious with exclusive incest offenders who have a very low re-offensive rate.
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for up to 10 separate offenses. When all known victims are female, the code is "opposite sex." When all known victims are male, the code is "same sex." All other cases are coded as "mixed." COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION rIhe issue of community notification of released sex offenders has recently become a major subject of political debate at both the state and federal level.
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(4) Well-coordinated treatment services provided by trained therapists who are experienced working with sex offenders should!
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There are approximately 3,000 sex offenders currently housed in the Commonwealth's penal facilities. If the Commonwealth paroled only 10 percent of the least dangerous offenders (e.g., many of the incest offenders)
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Legal clinics sponsored by local law schools, Legal Aid, ethnic organizations, or other special interest groups. Specialty courts dedicated to hear domestic violence cases exclusively.
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BASIC ASSUMPTIONS In the development of the Dade County Domestic Violence Plan, a set of the basic assumptions formed the theoretical framework for the court's initiative. First, when ignored, domestic violence escalates, and many victims return to their abusers.
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The existing components were enhanced by a 24-hour hotline with access to an emergency judge 7 clays a week; a domestic violence intake unit run by the court that assists petitioners with emergency petitions for temporary relief and emergency social service referrals; a domestic violence division of the court that hears petitions for civil protection orders, criminal misdemeanors, en c! provides judicial review of its treatment orders; a dedicated section of the probation department that provides an assessment and monitors compliance of treatment orders; county-funded treatment slots combiner!
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The petitioner is assisted! with the actual filing for the injunction ant} emergency social service referrals.
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OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS AND EVALUATION CRITERIA In September, 1993, one year after the implementation of the Dade County Domestic Violence Plan, John S GoIc~kamp from the Crime and Justice Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, receiver!
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Many jurisdictions have developed one or more domestic violence court programs, such as specializes} police or prosecutor units, dynamic treatment methods, victims advocacy groups, legal clinics, and specialty courts. However, few jurisdictions have integrated systems combining all the components for reducing domestic violence.
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Prepared for the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Reading, Penn.
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programs in the San Francisco Bay Area -- several in San Francisco (one Spanish monolingual) , including the San Francisco City Sheriff's Department, one at the California State Prison at San Quentin, and programs in Napa, Nevada, and Placer counties.
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The California Alliance Against Domestic Violence has adopted the gencler-based intervention theory and has used the Manalive model to establish standards for courtordered batterer intervention programs mandated in the 1993 California Assembly Bill No.
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The practice of monthly partner feedback provides ongoing evaluation of program effectiveness. Not all women participate, either because of fear or unwillingness to continue the relationship.
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Manalive has already experienced a significant increase in referrals to the Bay Area programs, as well as requests for information and training services from other programs in the United States and other countries. The Manalive Education and Research Institute is facilitating the development of neighborhood batterer intervention programs in the San Francisco Bay Area as a mode!
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7 The high toll of male violence on the health and well-being of the families and the nation is increasingly a matter of public concern. Approaches need to be developed to reach the men who do the violence and who have it in their power to stop it.
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The caretaker or partner's perception of behavior, and attribution of hostile intent or other negative attributes, may be important topics for the development of future intervention programs, both in the field of child abuse en c] intimate violence.
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the range of variation among human personalities are crucial in understanding the rates of attrition in voluntary and mandated treatment programs. The factors that influence compliance with treatment are an especially important research topic because the consequence of low compliance is often harm to others.
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