Type:	Journal Article
Title:	An examination of the impact of community-based rehabilitation on the offending behaviour of male domestic violence offenders and the characteristics associated with recidivism
Other Titles:	Legal and criminological psychology
Authors:	Gilchrist, Elizabeth A Bowen, Erica Beech, Anthony R
Keywords:	Criminal justice responses;Perpetrators
Year:	2005
Publisher:	British Psychological Society
Citation:	10, 2005
Notes:	General Overview: This UK article examines the impact of community based rehabilitation on male domestic violence offenders and the characteristics associated with recidivism. Objective: The UK study aims to look at the impact of community based rehabilitation programme on the rate of domestic violence re-offending and also the duration time to the first post treatment offence within an 11-month follow up. Pre-treatment demographics, psychological characteristics, and offending history of recidivists are also examined. Discussion: Results are discussed with reference to client treatment matching and nationally accredited rehabilitation programmes in the UK. The prevalence of re-offenders, treatment completion and re-offending, characteristics of re-offenders, demographic characteristics, psychological characteristics, criminal history characteristics, and predictors for re-offending are also discussed. Results: Out of the 86 offenders who started the community based rehabilitation programme, 21% are alleged to have re-offended within an 11-month post treatment period. Completing the programme is not significantly associated with alleged re-offending or time to first alleged re-offending incident. The treatment effect size is found to be small. Higher interpersonal dependency and more frequent contact with the police in the 23 months prior to attending the programme for theft and violent domestic violence predicted post treatment re-offending. Conclusions: Contrary to expectations, the results do not indicate that the programme significantly reduced the rate of alleged re-offending or increased the time to the first post treatment offence.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13385
ISSN:	13553259
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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