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As part of the Transforming Rehabilitation agenda the Ministry of Justice has supplied potential new service deliverers with a summary of evidence on reducing reoffending.
For domestic violence and abuse they cite a recent US review indicating the Duluth model has no effect on recidivism, while all of FIVE other programme models all had at least some effect.
Dr Mark Farrall said: "Historically, all convicted offending behaviour work for domestic violence and abuse in England and Wales such as the Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme (IDAP) has been based on the Duluth 'power and control' gendered model.
'Ignition supervised the Duluth 'pathfinder' project in the West Yorkshire Area in 2000, and subsequently over eight years supervised ten areas of the National Offender Management Service delivering the IDAP which developed from the 'pathfinder'.
'It was clear that workers could achieve good results, but to do so involved struggling against the model, the basis of which is simply not supported by research. Why not start from something that we know works, and helps workers do their job?"
The MoJ document can be found in the Resources section of this Website, and the relevant section is page 24.
