Domestic Violence Interventions
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Most programs, like the Daytona Beach program, offer multiple services and work within an interdependent chain of agencies in order to create a total community response to domestic violence. Standard interventions include 24-hour crisis lines, support groups for victims, mandated anger management or other groups for batterers, and protected shelters or safe homes. These are elements that developed from the grass roots domestic violence movement, rather than being imposed from the top down, or designed by academics. They are frequently evaluated and assessed in order to obtain continued fundings from federal, state, and private sources. What has basically become consensus thinking is that the issue of domestic violence is a fundamental social problem requiring a coordinated community-wide response involving a number of agencies and groups (Chalk and King, 1998). It is not sufficient to arrest batterers, nor to provide support groups and shelters for women. Instead, coalitions of service providers are optimal, with strong support from other agencies, from the police and prosecuting attorneys, from churches, and from universities and local schools. There are two problems involved in looking at domestic violence programs, depending upon one's perspective. The first problem is the prevention of domestic violence, which is the focus of domestic violence agencies, like the one in Daytona Beach. The second pr
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.S. National Institute of Justice looking at the impact of arrest on further incidents of domestic violence indicated that arrest was more likely than other types of intervention to reduce incidents of violence during a 12-month follow-up period (Sherman, 1992). However, this is a short period of time for follow-up results to indicate long-term change, and the study also indicated a reduction in domestic violence incidents, not elimination, or real change in the offenders behavior. In addition, later studies concluded that arrest policies might actually have no effect on behavior or negative effects on violent behavior (Garner et al., 1995). One interpretation of that, however, is that the community does not intervene strongly enough, and bail should be set higher, with police and community assistance much more assertive in supporting victims (Berk et al., 1992). Babcock and Steiner (1999) indicated that there is support for treatment, rather than simple incarceration in their exploration of Seattle's coordinated community response program.
Asking the participants
One of the more unique studies exploring interventions in cases of domestic violence is a so-called "consumer" study which asks both batterers and their female pa
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