Effects of Short-Term Batterer Treatment for Detained Arrestees in Sacramento County, California, 1999-2000 / Bruce G. Taylor, Christopher D. Maxwell.

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Datafile

Contributor:

Taylor, Bruce G.

Maxwell, Christopher, 1966-

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 4383.

ICPSR ; 4383

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

This study evaluated the effects of a program for detained arrestees developed by the Sacramento Sheriff's Department. The program was set up as an early intervention program to provide domestic violence (DV) education for arrestees during their time of detention before going to court. This evaluation used an experimental design. The researchers randomly assigned 629 batterers to either the batterer treatment wing of the jail or to a no-treatment control group in another wing of the jail. Interviews were conducted with the batterers and victims shortly after the arrest that placed the batterer in the Sacramento jail (Parts 1 and 2) and again six months after the intervention or control condition was concluded (Parts 3 and 4). Official police arrest data on recidivism were also collected post-arrest (Part 5). Interviews were conducted over the phone, except for the baseline batterer interviews that were done in the jail, and for those who were not available for interviewing, over the phone. Activities of the batterer treatment program included: mandatory detention in a special DV jail wing supervised by correction officers who had received special DV training, batterer educational workshops, daily Twelve-Step Drug/Alcohol addiction support groups, and strict regulations on television watching (special nonviolent educational programs were the only available programs). Batterer education classes were held daily, and the research team checked attendance logs. The arrestees were required at least to attend the program classes and Narcotics Anonymous/Alcoholics Anonymous groups and sit quietly. For the control group, participants were assigned to the regular part of the jail and received the usual incarceration experience of persons detained in the Sacramento County Jail (including no treatment services). Official police arrest data on recidivism were analyzed for up to one... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04383

Contents:

Part 1: Batterer Baseline Data; Part 2: Victim Baseline Data; Part 3: Batterer Six-Month Data; Part 4: Victim Six-Month Data; Part 5: Tracking Database; Part 6: Treatment Implementation Data; Part 7: Supplemental Final Report Variables

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2008-01-04.

Start: 1999; and end: 2000.

OCLC:

190871638

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