Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP) - The Duluth Model
Problems addressed
Violence against women
Recidivism
Effectiveness

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Promising

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Life periods served
Adults (18 to 59 years)
Where the program was applied
Community (streets or community centers)
Country of application
United States
Description

This is an cross-sector program to monitor victims of domestic violence and their aggressors.
The criminal and civil justice sectors and social assistance and humanitarian service providers coordinate actions to make communities safer for victims at two levels of attention:
1) Coordinated community response, where protection and rehabilitation services aimed at providing care to women and their families are activated;
2) The Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, or Duluth Model, which develops educational strategies aimed at aggressors, increasing awareness regarding the harm associated with domestic violence, so that it does not happen again.
Victims and aggressors are monitored for up to 28 weeks.

Impact evaluations

One impact evaluation found that, after one year, 67% of the men who participated in the offender program reported that they had not re-offended, compared to 30% of the men in the comparison group.
Another study found that those men had significantly lower levels of recidivism, according to official records of arrests and complaints, and significantly longer periods until recidivism. Victim reports, however, showed no significant differences in the rates of general maltreatment or severe maltreatment during the 12-month follow-up period [2].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Taylor, B. G., Davis, R. C. & Maxwell, C. D. (2001). The effects of a group batterer treatment program: A randomized experiment in Brooklyn. Justice Quarterly, 18(1), 171–201. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418820100094861

[2] Feder, L. & Dugan, L. (2002). A test of the efficacy of court-mandated counseling for domestic violence offenders: The broward experiment. Justice Quarterly, 19(2), 343–375. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418820200095271

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