WSIPP Report Critical of Existing Domestic Violence Treatment
The Washington State Insitute for Public Policy (WSIPP) recently released its January 2013 report entitled “What Works to Reduce Recidivism of Domestic Violence Offenders.” http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/13-01-1201.pdf
The report examines the effectiveness of the “Duluth Model” of domestic violence treatment, after which Washington State domestic violence treatment programs are patterned. The “Duluth Model” intervention is based on a model developed in Duluth, Minnesota, in…