“Time out”: a strategy for reducing men’s violence against women in relationships?

Wistow, Richard, Kelly, Liz and Westmarland, Nicole (2016) “Time out”: a strategy for reducing men’s violence against women in relationships? Violence Against Women, 23 (6). pp. 730-748. ISSN 1552-8448

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This article critically explores accounts of how men attending domestic violence perpetrator programs (DVPP) used the “time out” strategy. Findings are drawn from 71 semi-structured interviews with 44 men attending DVPPs and 27 female partners or ex-partners of men in DVPPs. We describe three ways in which the technique was used: first, as intended, to interrupt potential physical violence; second, through the effective adaption of the time-out rules by victim-survivors; and finally, misappropriation by some men to continue and extend their controlling behaviors. Policy and practice lessons are drawn from the findings through connecting broader and deeper measurements of what success means when working with domestic violence perpetrators to the ways in which the time-out technique was used.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	domestic violence, time-out, perpetrator programs, batterer intervention programs
Subjects:	300 Social sciences > 360 Social problems & services; associations
Department:	School of Social Sciences (to June 2021) School of Social Sciences and Professions
Depositing User:	Generic CWASU
Date Deposited:	01 Jun 2018 08:41
Last Modified:	13 May 2020 15:53
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/1486

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