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Change in Treatment Has No Relationship With Subsequent Re-Offending in U.K. Domestic Violence SampleA Preliminary StudyCoventry University, UK
Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland
University of Birmingham, UK In this study, data is presented from a sample of 52 male domestic violence offenders who were court mandated to attend a profeminist psycho-educational rehabilitation program in the West Midlands. The extent of both statistically and clinically significant psychological change achieved across a variety of measures (pro-domestic-violence attitudes, anger, locus of control, interpersonal dependency) assessed pre- and post-treatment, and their association with post-treatment re-offending within an 11-month follow-up period is examined. The results indicate that program completers achieved limited significant psychological change. However, the level of psychological change achieved had no association with re-offending.
Key Words: criminogenic need What Works domestic violence batterer intervention clinically significant change
This version was published on October
1, 2008 International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 5,
598-614 (2008) |
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