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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"batterers"”.
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Characteristics of Batterers Convicted of Domestic Abuse in the Batterers’ Education Reform
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Batterers' Perception of Treatment Non-Completion
… purpose of this study was to examine reasons why batterers drop out of batterers’ intervention programs. A qualitative design was utilized within the framework of Gove’s Prime Physical Theory, Bandura’s Self-Efficacy Theory and Braithwaite’s Reintegrative Shaming Theory. Data collection included …
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Risk Factors for Sexual Coercion in Male Batterers
… and treatment of sexually coercive male batterers.
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A Comparison of depressed and nondepressed male batterers
… groups of self-referred and court ordered male batterers: those who are depressed (n = 39), and those who are not depressed (n = 61). These two groups are compared along the following variables: alcohol use, anger, anxiety, beliefs about wife beating, jealousy, marital satisfaction, couple …
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TESTING THE UTILITY OF NEURAL NETWORK MODELS TO PREDICT HISTORY OF ARREST IN BATTERERS
In prisons, risk assessments are typically based on retrospective reports of factors known to be correlated with violence recidivism. Previous studies have used linear models that rely on variables that have been linked to past history of intimate partner violence (IPV) based on men’s report only. …
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Men Who Batter: Personality Variables, Relationship Variables, and Treatment Outcome
… between the personality characteristics of male batterers and treatment outcome. It also examined a pattern of communication found in violent couples where the male pursues the female and the female withdraws in an argument. The study also compared alcohol use with treatment outcome.</p> …
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Factors affecting the likelihood of paternal custodial disputes in dissolution of marriage cases
Male batterers -- Paternal custodial challenges -- Support payment arrearage -- Income levels of fathers -- Violent fathers -- Nonviolent fathers -- Initiation of court appearances -- Gender of children.
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Factors affecting the likelihood of paternal custodial disputes in dissolution of marriage cases
Male batterers -- Paternal custodial challenges -- Support payment arrearage -- Income levels of fathers -- Violent fathers -- Nonviolent fathers -- Initiation of court appearances -- Gender of children.
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Characteristics of male batterers and substance abusers: the relationship between sex role attitudes and the approval and severity of the use of physical force by men in a family context
… included 44 men participating in programs for batterers and 71 men in programs for substance abusers. Subjects were compared according to approval and severity of use of physical violence, childhood history of violence, level of alcohol use, and sex-role attitudes. Results. Results of the study …
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The Process of Identity Change From Entitled Controller to Batterer
… among thirteen men who had been labeled as batterers by the courts and who were about to graduate from the Project to End Abuse through Counseling and Education (PEACE), a court-mandated batterers' intervention program, in Nashville, Tennessee. It is deemed necessary for a batterer to first …
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Engaging with perpetrators of intimate partner violence : an exploration of inter-agency collaboration in the Western Cape
… best practices, treatment interventions for batterers are based on psycho-educational and cognitive behavioural principles and provided in community-based group settings. Coordinated community responses are likely to provide favourable outcomes for batterer intervention and the prevention of …
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Reforming institutional responses to violence against women
… the total institution (Avni, 1991), within which batterers use violence, threats of violence, isolation, and other tactics of abuse to enforce compliance with their rules. Battering has well-documented physical, psychological, social, and economic consequences for women. It flourishes within the …
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Heart rate reactivity, aggression, anger, and antisocial behavior in dating males
… reactivity as a typological variable for male batterers. Participants were categorized according to their scores on the Conflict Tactics Scale, Revised. Heart rate reactivity, personality variables (using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Second Edition), and anger (using the …
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A qualitative study of women perpetrators of domestic violence: comparison with literature on men perpetrators of domestic violence
… 13 women who have been referred for treatment in batterers' intervention programs. Two of the women are black, two are Hispanic, and the remaining nine are white. The interviews reveal the women's childhood and prior relationship history with violence, finding that the majority of them were …
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Women who have been battered : their experiences of the criminal justice system
… have been battered and to impose sanctions on batterers. With this greater emphasis on criminal justice remedies, social workers have an important role in assisting women through the justice system. They need to know, from the women themselves, what their experiences are with the justice system …
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The Experience of Rural Battered Women: Overcoming Challenges
… victims may be even more vulnerable to their batterers. To more fully understand difficulties faced by battered women, archival data containing a community sample of 394 women, who had experienced violence in a current or past romantic relationship, were examined. Overall quantitative findings …
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The Experience of Rural Battered Women: Overcoming Challenges
… victims may be even more vulnerable to their batterers. To more fully understand difficulties faced by battered women, archival data containing a community sample of 394 women, who had experienced violence in a current or past romantic relationship, were examined. Overall quantitative findings …
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Assessing how adult attachment and gender role attitudes impact intimate partner violence
… is drawn from a larger research study of male batterers who participated in the domestic violence program of the Circuit Court of Cook County Social Services Department (DVP). This data was collected from November 2001 through April 2003 and includes quantitative data for one hundred fifty-four …
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Improving religious organizations' effectiveness with battered women: advice from victim advocates
… are better prepared to help victims and their batterers. Finally, for battered women both inside and outside their faith communities, leaders can work with shelters to provide financial and other resources to assist these women as they search for ways to live in a violence free home environment.
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