Future Directions in Mandated Standards for Domestic Violence Offenders
Title:
Future Directions in Mandated Standards for Domestic Violence Offenders
Author:
Rosenbaum, Alan Geffner, Robert A.
Appeared in:
Journal of aggression, maltreatment & trauma
Paging:
Volume 5 (2001) nr. 2 pages 287-293
Year:
2001-05-29
Contents:
Over the past decade, states have been enacting domestic violence legislation, which often empowers judges to mandate batterers into intervention programs. To insure that these programs meet reasonable standards and that there is some homogeneity among programs, collateral laws mandating the development of batterer treatment standards are also common. The standards that have emerged have become a source of controversy. The current volume was developed in order to examine the issues and evidence, and to suggest some guidelines, if not for the standards themselves, then for the process that states might use in developing rational, useful standards, or in reevaluating and revising existing standards. To that end, this article offers a synthesis of the selections in this special volume and a suggested set of recommendations that committees might consider as they engage in the difficult processes of standard development or revision.
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