Contradictory research results have created confusion among professionals who work in fields related to domestic violence and criminal justice. To explore how the systems that work with perpetrators of domestic violence could be improved and how research could be more helpful to the field, the Family Violence Prevention Fund and NIJ co-sponsored a meeting on batterer intervention programs (BIPs)and domestic violence research and practice in December 2009.
Following are that groups' recommendations related to policy and practice. [1]
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Stopping the abuse |
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Testing BIP effectiveness |
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Assessing safety and well being of women and children |
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Integrating BIPs with other programs |
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Understanding court responses |
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Implementing prevention and early intervention programs |
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[1] This table is taken from Batterer Intervention: Doing the Work and Measuring the Progress (pdf, 22 pages) Exit Notice, a report on the December 2009 Experts Roundtable prepared by Lucy Salcido Carter.
[2] These are participants' comments and do not constitute a cohesive body of information. Due to space limitations, participants' comments from these discussions have been shortened and paraphrased.
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