Type:	Journal Article
Title:	The impact of a batterers' program on battered women
Other Titles:	Violence against women
Authors:	Austin, Juliet B Dankwort, Juergen
Keywords:	Perpetrator programs;Perpetrators;Counselling
Year:	1999
Publisher:	Sage Publications
Citation:	5 (1), January 1999
Notes:	Authors argue that, although many perpetrator programmes state that the safety and well being of women and their children is a core principle, there is little research which explores how well this is achieved. They undertook this study to address this research gap through in-depth interviews with 25 partners of men who had participated in a Canadian Batterers’ Program, based on the work of Alan Jenkins. Most of the women reported some positive changes in their lives through their partners’ participation in the programme. Their narratives reflected three themes: feelings of enhanced safety (though this was a complex issue with less than one-third of the women reporting feeling completely safe, and factors outside of the programme cited as some of the reasons for increased safety); a sense of enhanced well-being; and the experience of being validated by programme staff who were often the first to say that the women bore no responsibility for their partners’ abusive behaviour. Demonstrates the complexity of the evaluation of the effectiveness of programmes for perpetrators.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/12548
ISSN:	1077-8012
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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