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Community Domestic Violence Programme

The programme includes work with known victims and inter-agency risk management.

Programme aims:

  • To reduce the risk of violent crime and abusive behaviour towards women in relationships by helping perpetrators change their attitudes and behaviour
  • To reduce the risk of all violent and abusive behaviour in the family
  • To increase the offender’s ability to respond non-abusively, to change abusive beliefs and empathise with victim(s)
  • To give offenders a greater sense of personal responsibility for their violence
  • To help offenders accept that they exercise choice in the way they behave
  • To increase the offender’s ability to identify high-risk situations and to manage these effectively in the future

Who is suitable?

Male offenders who:

  • are heterosexual
  • have been assessed as a medium to high risk for relationship violence as indicated by severity and/or pattern of abuse using the Spousal Abuse Risk Assessment (SARA)
  • have committed at least one act of violence against an intimate partner
  • have basic literacy, language compentency and comprehension skills
  • are willing to sign a consent form which will inlcude the sharing of relevant information with the offender’s spouse/partner
  • are assessed as suitable in a PSR

Who is not suitable?

  • Female offenders
  • Offenders in same sex relationships
  • Offenders with severe mental health issues
  • Offenders who are judged unable to meet the learning outcomes because of e.g. severe drug dependency

This programme involves:

  • Contact with the victim or current partner by a women’s safety worker
  • Risk management through continual assessment and information sharing with other agencies including the police
  • Groupwork sessions and at least nine individual sessions with the offender:
    • Three individual pre-programme sessions to enhance motivation
    • 26 groupwork sessions of two hours.  This is sequential and is usually delivered twice a week but can be delivered up to three times per week
    • At least four relapse prevention sessions

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