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dc.contributor.authorGondolf, Edward Wen
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-30T23:08:36Z-
dc.date.available2022-06-30T23:08:36Z-
dc.date.issued1999en
dc.identifier.citation5 (11), November 1999en
dc.identifier.issn1077-8012en
dc.identifier.urihttps://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13757-
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherSage Publicationsen
dc.subjectPerpetratorsen
dc.titleCharacteristics of court-mandated batterers in four cities: diversity and dichotomiesen
dc.title.alternativeViolence against womenen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.catalogid2285en
dc.subject.keywordInternationalen
dc.subject.keywordnew_recorden
dc.subject.keywordJournal article/research paperen
dc.description.notesIn attempting to verify the generalisations about the characteristics of men in batterer programmes, the US study in this article tests for differences in men’s characteristics across these programmes. As part of a multisite evaluation of batterer programmes with 840 subjects, background and test data, including information from the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) and the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III), were systematically collected from four geographically distributed batterer programmes. The men appeared similar demographically to those in previous portrayals of court-mandated batterers, except that this sample had a greater portion of African American and Latino men. Several dichotomies became evident among the men, such as differences in living arrangements, education, employment, and drinking. Over half of the men in the sample had been arrested for offenses other than domestic violence. Over half of the men had “alcoholic” tendencies according to the MAST, and over one quarter showed evidence of severe personality pathology or severe clinical syndromes on the MCMI-III. The article suggests that dichotomies among the batterers may justify revisions of the curriculum-based batterer programmes, and recommend that considering similarities in problems that these men face, batterer programmes should maintain similar approaches and structures regardless of the geography.en
dc.identifier.sourceViolence against womenen
dc.date.entered2001-05-17en
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