General Support around Abusive Partner Intervention

Addressing Sexual Violence

• Men Stopping Violence’s Definition of Male Sexual Violence Against Women: Implications for Prevention and Intervention (Douglas, Giordano, Loughlin, Men Stopping Violence, 2020)
• 10 to 10 Helpline Frequently Asked Questions
• A Call for Change Helpline
• What do I say to someone I love who is harming their partner? | A Call for Change Helpline

Community Response

• Coordinated Community Response Definition Fact Sheet (Center for Justice Innovation, 2022)
• Coordinated Community Response Guiding Values Fact Sheet (Center for Justice Innovation, 2022)
• Seeding Generations: New Strategies Towards Services for People who Abuse (Shah, 2017)
• Building Multiple Pathways to Healing, Safety, and Accountability to Address Intimate Partner Violence (Davis et al., 2024)
• [2024 Conference Workshop] The Role of APIPs in the Coordinated Community Response
• Fuerza Unida: An Approach for Engaging Communities (Casa de Esperanza, 2013)
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Comprehensive Assessment

• [Podcast] Assessing Risk in Abusive Partner Intervention Programs
• [Webinar] Comprehensive Assessment in Abusive Partner Intervention Work (Center for Court Innovation, 2020) 
• Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence Testing Instruments (Hall, 2020)
• Healing Together: Organizational Self-Assessment (Alliance for Boys and Men of Color)
• Adult Hope Scale (Snyder et al., 1991)

Court Collaboration and Response

• Compliance Monitoring in Domestic Violence Cases: A Guide for Courts (Center for Court Innovation, 2020)
• Fact Sheet: Domestic Violence Court Compliance Monitoring (Center for Court Innovation, 2013)
• 10 Things Courts Should Know About Their Local Intervention Programs for Abusive Partners (Thomforde-Hasuer, Center for Court innovation, 2017)
• What Courts Should Know: Trends in Intervention Programming for Abusive Partners (Thomforde-Hasuer, Center for Court innovation, 2017) 
• Bail Reform and Intimate Partner Violence in Maine (Walton, 2019)
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Evaluation

• Integrating the Principles of Effective Intervention into Batterer Intervention Programming: The Case for Moving Toward More Evidence-Based Programming (Radatz & Wright, 2015)
• Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programs – Steps Towards Change: Project Mirabal Final Report (Kelly & Westmarland, 2015)
• Still Looking for Mechanisms: A Realist Review of Batterer Intervention Programs (Velonis et al., 2018) 
• Breaking the Mold: Evaluating a Non-Punitive Domestic Violence Intervention Program (Crockett et al., 2015)
• Exploring Factors That Contribute to Positive Change in a Diverse, Group-Based Male Batterer Intervention Program: Using Qualitative Data to Inform Implementation and Adaptation Efforts (Holtrop et al., 2015)
• Compilation of Edward Gondolf’s Research (Gondolf, 1991-2018)
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Facilitator Tips

• [2024 Conference Workshop] Using Self Disclosure in Facilitation
• The Batterer Intervention Facilitators Tool Box (Family Peace Initiative, 2016-Present)
• What is Motivational Interviewing? (Rollnick and Miller, 1995)
• Elements Needed for Quality Batterer Intervention Programs: Perspectives of Professionals Who Deal with Intimate Partner Violence (Morrison et al., 2016)
• Twenty Tips for Co-Facilitating Batterer Intervention Groups (Ohio Domestic Violence Network, 2014)
• CBT Guide for Intimate Partner Violence (Berliner, Merchant, Roberts, and Martin, 2020)
• Effects of Motivational Enhancement on Immediate Outcomes of Batterer Intervention (Scott et al., 2011)
• Institute for Leadership in Education Development (I-LED)

Fatherhood

• How do you want your kids to remember you? A workbook for fathers who have harmed their partners and families and want to change (Futures Without Violence, 2022)
• Parenting Interventions for Men Who Batter (Scott and Mederos, 2012)
• [International] Discussions of Fatherhood in Male Batterer Treatment Group (Veteläinen, Grönholm, and Holma, 2013)
• Fathering After Violence: Guidelines and Tools for Batterer Intervention Programs (Futures Without Violence)
• Video: Something My Father Would Do (Futures Without Violence, 2019)
• Breaking the Cycle: Fathering After Violence: Curriculum Guidelines and Tools for Batterer Intervention Programs (Fleck-Henderson and Areán, Family Violence Prevention Fund, 2004)
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International Research  

• Engage Online Database of Resources Related to Working with Perpetrators 

LGBTQIA+ Intervention

• Invisible Pain and Overlooked Violence: Abusive Partner Interventions in the LGBTQIA+ Community (Publication, Center for Justice Innovation, 2022)
• Abusive Partner Interventions for the LGBTQIA+ Community (Podcast, Center for Justice Innovation, 2021)
• [2024 Conference Plenary] Beyond Binaries: Moving Towards an Inclusive Framework to Support Those Who Cause Harm
• What Services Exist for LGBTQ Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence in Batterer Intervention Programs Across North America? A Qualitative Study (Canon, 2019)
• Lesbians’ Descriptions of the Actions that Led to Their Arrests and Court-Orders to Antiviolence Intervention: Practice, Advocacy, and Research Considerations (Larance, 2024)
• “You can’t just … add a bit of rainbow dust”: A review of the Clear Space online family violence behavioural change program for GBTQ+ men and non-binary people (McGowan et al. 2023)

Probation Responses

• [Podcast] In Practice: Taking a Holistic Approach with Domestic Violence Offenders (Center for Court Innovation featuring James Henderson and Aeron Muckala, 2019)

Programming

• Creating a Trauma-Informed Abusive Partner Intervention Program (Criminal Justice Investment Initiative, 2021)
• CBT Guide for Intimate Partner Violence (Berliner, Merchant, Roberts, & Martin, 2020)
• Programs for Men Who Batter (Mederos & Aldarondo 2002)
• Anger Management vs. Domestic Violence Offender Treatment: An Overview (CO Domestic Violence Offender Management Board, 2014)
• Restricting Couple’s Counseling in Domestic Violence Offender Treatment (Victim Representatives of the CO Domestic Violence Offender Management Board, 2009)
• Certified Intimate Partner Abuse Education Programs and Fatherhood Programs: What is the Difference? (MA Department of Public Health, 2019)
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Restorative Justice

• A National Portrait of Restorative Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence (Center for Court Innovation, North Carolina State University, University of Vermont, 2019)
• [2024 Conference Workshop] Restorative Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence
• [Podcast] Restorative Justice and Intimate Partner Violence (Center for Justice Innovation, 2021)
•  [Webinar] Introduction to Restorative Justice (Barnard Center for Research on Women, 2020)
• Defining Justice: Restorative and Retributive Justice Goals Among Intimate Partner Violence Survivors (Decker et al., 2020)
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Sample Forms

• Domestic Violence Offender Program Observation Form (Center for Court Innovation) 

Sanctioning Matrices

• Domestic Violence Compliance Court Recommended Sanctions for Infractions (Kansas City Municipal Court)
• Domestic Violence Drug Court Recommended Sanctions for Infractions (Kansas City Municipal Court)
• Clay County Domestic Violence Court Sanctioning Matrix (Moorehead, MN) 

State Standards

• Key Papers on APIP Standards
• Assessing States’ Intimate Partner Violence Offender Treatment Standards using a Principles of Effective Intervention Framework (Richards et al., 2021)
• Standards for Treatment with Court Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders (CO Domestic Violence Offender Management Board, 2020)
• Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programs: A Proposal for Evidence-Based Standards in the United States (Babcock et al., 2016)
• Punishment or Rehabilitation?: The Case for State-Mandated Guidelines for Batterer Intervention Programs in Domestic Violence Cases (Dekki, 2004)
• Treating Female Perpetrators: State Standards for Batterer Intervention Services (Kernsmith and Kernsmith, 2009)
• Vermont Domestic Violence Accountability Program Values-Based Standards
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Tools

• Abusive Partner Intervention and Engagement Self-Assessment: Revisiting Goals, Challenges, and Progress in Community Responses For communities that have an abusive partner intervention program, a self-assessment is an opportunity to revisit the values, goals, and objectives your community has in place for abusive partner accountability, engagement, and programming; the overall progress towards those goals; and the role of the community in supporting programs. This self-assessment, rooted in the Abusive Partner Accountability and Engagement Training and Technical Assistance project's set of guiding principles, is meant to act as a guide and a living document from which system and community-based enhanced responses to accountability and engagement can emerge. 
• Abusive Partner Intervention and Engagement Self-Assessment: Facilitation in Abusive Partner Intervention Programs A companion document to the community self-assessment, this document allows facilitators of abusive partner intervention programs to assess their skills and training needs.

Once you fill out the form, our team will contact you to access the assessment.

Trauma

• Addressing Trauma Through Abusive Partner Intervention Programs (Center for Court Innovation and Futures Without Violence, featuring Terri Strodthoff and Steve Halley, 2020)
• [2024 Conference Plenary] Healing-Centered Practice: The Science of Trauma and Why It Matters in Our Work
• How Trauma, Depression, and Gender Roles Lead to Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among a Sample of Predominantly Low-Income Black, Indigenous, Men of Color: A Mixed Methods Study (Voith, Lee, & Russell, 2020) 
• Adverse Childhood Experiences, Trauma Symptoms, Mindfulness, and Intimate Partner Violence: Therapeutic Implications for Marginalized Men (Voith, Russell, Lee, & Anderson, 2020)
• Trauma-Informed Care for Children Exposed to Violence: Tips for Engaging Men and Fathers (Safe Start Center, OJJDP)
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Understanding Abusive Partners

• ‘I Don’t Want to Hit My Children. I Don't Want to Hit Anybody.’ (Snyder, The New York Times, 2021
• Can Domestic Abusers Keep Themselves Accountable When No One is Watching? (Snyder, The New Yorker, 2020)
• Can Batterers Be Rehabilitated (Center for Court Innovation featuring David Adams, 2012) 
• Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men (Bancroft, 2003) 
• Different Motives of Those Who Batter (Family Peace Initiative, 2022)
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Virtual Programming and Responding to COVID-19

• Remote Abusive Partner Intervention Programs for Underserved Communities (Center for Court Innovation, Updated 2022)
• Initial Lessons Learned from Using Video Conferencing Software to Deliver Interventions for Men Using Violence in Intimate Relationships (Bellini and Westmarland, 2020)
• A problem solved is a problem created: the opportunities and challenge associated with an online domestic violence perpetrator programme (Bellini and Westmarland, 2021)
• The Other Side of Domestic Violence: Helping Survivors by Working with Their Abusive Partner – An Approach to Preventing Violence that Can Work, Even During a Pandemic (Areán and Strodthoff, 2020)
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Women Who Use Force

• Webinar - Women Who Use Force (Center for Court Innovation, April 2021)
• Safe at Home: Women Who Use Force (Michigan Radio Newsroom, 2011)
• In Her Own Words: Women Describe Their Use of Force Resulting in Court-Ordered Intervention (Larance and Miller, 2017)
• Understanding and Addressing Women’s Use of Force in Intimate Relationships: A Retrospective (Larance et al., 2019)
• Facilitating Change: A Process of Renewal for Women Who Have Used Force in Their Intimate Heterosexual Relationships (Larance & Russon, 2016) 
• Resources: Understanding & Addressing Women’s Use of Force (Compiled by Lisa Young Larance)
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Working with Young People Who Cause Harm

• Arrest Histories of Adolescent Male Domestic Violence Offenders in New York City (Peterson, 2011)
• “Domestic Violence Among Young Male Offenders.” (Peterson, 2010)
• Youth Dating Violence: Can a Court Help Break the Cycle? (Center for Court Innovation, 2004)
• Guidelines for Young Adult Offenders (Standards For Treatment With Court Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders: Appendix K, Colorado Domestic Violence Offender Management Board, 2017)
• Family Peace Initiative’s Youth Initiative