Does rehabilitation for abusers work? After seeking therapy, how many abusers go back to abusing?
Unfortunately, we don’t have good statistics on this issue yet. Men Overcoming Violence claimed that batterers who complete their year-long program are less likely to continue battering than batterers who go to jail and receive no therapy. It’s entirely possible, however, that a batterer may no longer physically abuse his/her partner but still verbally abuse him/her, and no one gets arrested for verbal abuse. Nonetheless, many of us in the anti-violence community have a great amount of faith in the worth of these programs in the long-term. Of course, we should spend most of our efforts in prevention work. Men Overcoming Violence, which is no longer in existence, had a youth program that focused on men who have shown signs of violence in their families. That’s where the real change can take place. More programs like that could make a real difference.
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