NCJ Number
139788
Journal
Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume: 7 Issue: 4 Dated: (December 1992) Pages: 490-502
Date Published
1992
Length
13 pages
Annotation
The effect of the Minneapolis Intervention Project (MIP) on the lives of 358 battered women and their assailants was examined in an effort to shed some light on the multiple components of system responses that appear to contribute to lowering perpetrator recidivism rates.
Abstract
At the 6 month followup, 117 (59.7 percent) of the men for whom data were available had not repeated their violence but 79 (40.3 percent) had reoffended. Seventy-four men (61.2 percent) had not repeated violence at the 12 month followup, but 47 (38.8 percent) had done so. Those arrested and court- ordered to treatment were the least likely to repeat their violence (n=12, 32.4 percent), followed by those who were not arrested (n=28, 38.9 percent), and then by those who were arrested but not ordered to treatment (n=39, 44.8 percent). These trends were not statistically significant. Slightly stronger trends were found for the available 12 month followup data. Of those men in the 6 month sample for whom this was the first police visit, 73.1 percent (n=76) did not repeat their use of violence; among those whom police had visited earlier, 44.6 percent (n=41) did not repeat. The higher a man's educational level the lower his likelihood to repeat his use of violence. System outcome, police visits, and perpetrator educational level combined to produce a model of predictive strength. 3 tables and 26 references