Transcript Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programmes Oxfordshire

Domestic Abuse Perpetrators
Who are they?
Sue Pearce
Assistant Director - Interventions
28th November 2006
Community Domestic Violence
Programme
• Accredited through CSAP
• As system with closed groupwork
• 4 aspects
–Multi-agency risk assessment and risk
management
–Contact with known victims
–Pro-active offender management
–Gender based cognitive behavioural
groupwork
Who are these offenders?
• Some characteristics that many studied perpetrators
share
– Male; youth ( Moffit 1997) ;
– authoritarian (Hastings 1997) ;
– depressed ( Pan et al.)
– and unlikely to verbalise emotions (Yelsma1996);
– tend to blame violence on external factors and
minimise seriousness ( Stamp and Sabourin 1995)
• No single profile that completely and reliably
distinguishes
• Characterisation by risk
• Characterisation by psychological/ behavioural
characteristics
Who are these offenders?
By typology
• Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart 1994
–Family only 50% ;dysphoric/borderline;
generally violent/antisocial
• Dutton and Golant 1995
–Emotionally volatile/psychopathic/over
controlling
HORF 217
• Domestic Violence Offenders as a heterogeneous
group
• Witnessing domestic violence in childhood
• Disrupted attachment patterns
• High levels of interpersonal dependency and
jealousy
• Attitudes condoning domestic violence
• Lack of empathy
Who are these offenders (2)
• HORF 217
–Alcohol as a feature 62% /dependant 48%
–2 main types
• Borderline/emotionally dependent had
high levels of jealousy, high levels of
anger, low self esteem
• Antisocial /narcissistic had hostile
attitudes towards women, low empathy,
highest alcohol dependence
By risk of harm
Subtypes of offender
• Antisocial/ narcissistic – antisocial – 47%
• Tendency to engage in antisocial behaviour
• Drug and alcohol dependence
• Endorse macho attitudes
• Difficulties with empathy
• Likely to have previous convictions (range of
offences)
• Antisocial/ narcissistic- narcissistic-13%
• Tendency to be paranoid and narcissistic
• Tend not to endorse macho attitudes
• tendency to respond in socially desirable
manner
• Dismissive attachment style
• Antisocial/narcissistic - low pathology – 12%
• Narcissistic
• Moderate macho attitudes
• Respond in Socially desirable manner
• Do not express high levels of anger
• Tend not to engage in ideas of suicide
• Not likely to report childhood abuse
• Borderline/emotionally dependent – 28%
• Highly interpersonally dependent
• High levels of anger
• Depression/anxiety
• Low self esteem
• Likely to blame others for their circumstances
• Likely to have experienced physical and sexual
abuse in childhood
• Fearful attachment style and engage in suicidal
thoughts
Types of Behaviour Reported by Partners
• Economic abuse
• Emotional abuse
• Male privilege
• Isolation
• Coercion and threats
• Minimising
• Intimidation
• Using children
Nested Ecological Model
(Dutton 1995)
• Macro-system
–wider cultural attitudes and beliefs
• Exo-system
–influence of local social structures
• Micro-system
–Immediate environment
• Ontogenetic
–Individual level developmental
history/experience of victimisation/mental
health
Indicators of success
• What is success?
–Reoffending
–Repeat incidents
–Victim feedback
–psychometrics Integrated Programme
• West Yorkshire results
• Canadian results
When is a programme not a
programme?
When it’s a system