European perpetrator programmes a survey on day-to-day outcome measurement

Abstract

Evaluating the results of programmes for perpetrators of domestic violence is essential for both policy makers and practitioners, and a growing number of studies have addressed this issue. However, few studies have described the ongoing, day-today outcome measurements routinely undertaken by perpetrator programmes to monitor their results. As part of the IMPACT Evaluation of European Perpetrator Programmes project, in the present study 134 domestic violence perpetrator programmes from 22 European countries answered a survey on the designs, methods and instruments they use in their current day-today outcome monitoring practice and on the obstacles to and need for improvements in this practice. The main results include the findings that 20% of programmes do not measure outcomes at all, that there is a great diversity in methods and instruments used, and a low percentage of programmes make use of data from the victims/survivors and from follow-ups.

Las masculinidades y los programas de intervención para maltratadores en casos de violencia de género en España

“…Por tanto, y recogiendo de modo explícito la recomendación que realizaron Rothman, Butchard y Cerdá (2003), y que contemplan también la mayoría de estándares y guías de buenas prácticas desarrolladas en el ámbito europeo para trabajar con maltratadores (Ginés, Geldschläger, Nax & Ponce, 2015), se incluyó en el cuestionario diseñado y como parte de los criterios básicos a considerar para evaluar los programas de intervención con maltratadores, el análisis de la masculinidad, esto es, el análisis sobre la forma en que las normas sociales sobre el género afectan al modo en que los hombres se comportan en las relaciones de pareja.…”

“…En definitiva, a lo largo de los párrafos anteriores se ha tratado de poner de manifiesto una doble realidad: por una parte, que las explicaciones actuales y multicausales de la violencia contra las mujeres en la pareja muestran que la noción de masculinidad (específicamente, el mandato masculino tradicional que conforma la masculinidad hegemónica que ha venido imperando) es un elemento clave en la génesis de esta violencia y, por tanto, en los programas de intervención con quienes la cometen (Ginés et al, 2015;Wojnicka, 2015); y, por otra, que, a pesar de ello, la mayoría de programas de intervención para maltratadores en casos de violencia de género abordan esta cuestión tan sólo, y en el mejor de los casos, de forma colateral.…”

Batterer Intervention Programs in Spain: An Analysis of Their Effectiveness

“…Nowadays, estimates point toward there being more than 2,500 of these programs in the United States and more than 500 in Europe (Geldschläger, Ginés, & Ponce, 2009). This matter has aroused the interest of researchers, and as a result, there are a growing number of publications on the impact and characteristics of these programs (Ginés, Geldschläger, Nax, & Ponce, 2015). This research has stimulated intense debate about the programs' theoretical framework, relevance, and effectiveness (Boots, Wareham, Bartula, & Canas, 2016;Eckhardt, Murphy, Black, & Suhr, 2006;Eckhardt et al, 2013;McGinn, Taylor, McColgan, & Lagdon, 2015;Stuart, Temple, & Moore, 2007).…”

“…They find a wide disparity in approaches to handling batterers and a dearth of high-quality evaluation across the different countries. Ginés et al (2015) carried out a similar study as a part of the IMPACT Evaluation of European Perpetrator Programmes project. Specifically, the persons in charge of 134 BIPs from 22 European countries (34 from Spain) responded to a survey concerning the designs, methods, and instruments used in the outcome monitoring of BIPs, their barriers, and the need for improvements in implementation.…”