A Large Sample Investigation of Batterer Intervention Program Attrition: Evaluating the Impact of State Program Standards

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick P. Buttell ◽  
Michelle Mohr Carney
Keyword(s):  
Intervention Program ◽  
Batterer Intervention ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
State Program ◽  
Program Standards ◽  
Program Attrition ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Batterer Intervention Program

Predictors of Batterer Intervention Program Attrition

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Mohr Carney ◽  
Frederick P. Buttell ◽  
John Muldoon
Keyword(s):  
Intervention Program ◽  
Batterer Intervention ◽  
Program Attrition ◽  
Batterer Intervention Program

Gender and Batterer Intervention

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hamel ◽  
Regardt J. Ferreira ◽  
Fred Buttell
Keyword(s):  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Intimate Partner Abuse ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Program Completion ◽  
Batterer Intervention ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Nonequivalent Groups ◽  
The Impact

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of gender and other variables commonly associated with intimate partner abuse perpetration on program completion and pretreatment abusiveness profiles among a sample of men and women ordered into a 52-week batterer intervention program (BIP). Method: The study employed a posttest only design with nonequivalent groups (comparing program completers to dropouts and men to women) in an analysis of 175 clients mandated into a BIP. Results: Analysis indicated that there were no significant differences between men and women in terms of program completion and that women were significantly more likely than men to report engaging in severe physical abuse perpetration, and a logistic regression analysis indicated that dropouts were 6 times more likely to have initiated physical abuse compared to completers. Conclusion: These findings reveal characteristics of BIP program participants as they relate to self-reported abusiveness and provide preliminary evidence suggesting that both BIP pretreatment profiles and treatment completion rates of men and women are similar, with implications for policy and treatment.

In Their Own Words: Attributed Causes of Own Intimate Partner Violence

Partner Abuse ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Raison ◽  
Donald Dutton
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Batterer Intervention ◽  
College Community ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Gender Paradigm ◽  
Batterer Intervention Program

A review of 20 articles (with a collective N of 16,463) was conducted assessing reasons given by perpetrators for their commission of intimate partner violence (IPV). College, community, and batterer intervention program samples were used. Five studies used Follingstad's (1991) Motivation and Effects Questionnaire to assess reported motivations. This had an advantage in standardizing the definitions of motives, which varied widely in other studies. Perpetrators of IPV, whether male or female, do not describe their motives in gender-political terms. Instead, they describe them in psychological terms, such as anger, frustration, or gaining attention. The most frequently endorsed reasons were anger (68% by women, 47% by men) and gaining attention (53% by women, 55% by men). Self-defense was the least endorsed (7th of seven motives). The implications of this finding for the gender paradigm are discussed.

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