Resource Library

ICCR Webinar: Exposing What's Concealed: Leveraging existing federal statues to increase victim safety and offender accountability presented by John Guard.

ICCR Webinar: Battering intervention & prevention program services for domestic violence offenders presented by Mikisha Hooper & Claire Sudolsky.

This webinar highlights strategic prevention efforts to family violence through battering intervention programs.

Part 1 of this BWJP webinar series discusses the role of law enforcement in response to IPV, and the relationship between advocacy groups and police officers (2017).

This booklet examines research on intimate partner violence and analyzes what it reveals that probation officers and administrators should know to do their jobs better with regard to offender accountability (2015).

This OVW-funded webinar describes a new protocol developed in Massachussetts for assessing risk of men who attend batterer intervention programs (2018).

This research focuses on batterer intervention programs and the most effective types of programming found by researchers and providers (2011).

This article delves into the historical context of batterer stereotypes, and suggests limits to our understanding of IPV offenders (2015).

This U.K. study is based on a survey of 44 domestic violence services and 73 interviews with men who were in, or had completed, a program to explore possible positive outcomes for children (2013).

This paper looks at the impact of children on perpetrators' desire to change their behavior. The authors explore the role of fatherhood as a motivating factor for offenders to engage in behavior change programs (2016).

This paper reviews existing research of BIPP programs and examines what causes IPV and how its reflected in models and curriculum. 

This report analyzes batterer treatment models, specifically the Duluth Model, which has received intense criticism over the years.

This article examines a specific BIPP model, the Duluth Model.  The authors focus on the program's implementation in Ann Arbor, Micihigan, commenting on its efficacy and methodology (2017).

This extensive checklist provides assistance to judges, in order for them to enhance decision-making, tailor service plans to hold perpetrators accountable, evaluate perpetrator treatment options, etc.

This paper raises the question of how to hold perpetrators accountable. Often times, the perception exists that victim reluctance is the problem in DV case outcomes. However, the authors seek to uncover who is in the best position to hold these batterers accountable (2005).

This study examined the effectiveness of batterer intervention and prevention programs (BIPP) for cases assigned to a misdemeanor family court (2015).