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Assessing the Risk of Repeated Violence Among Men Arrested for Wife Assault: A Review of the Literature
Cooper, M.
This report reviews the literature on risk assessment for the prediction of violence in general and of the risk of recidivism (repeated violence) in the case of wife assault.
64 pages / $6
Challenges in Programming for Wife Batterers
Cooper, M.
This report reviews published literature on programming for wife batterers. It was written in the context of the project to develop guiding principles for institutional programmes. Topics addressed include definitional issues, a review of community program effectiveness studies and the scant literature on programming in an institutional context. A number of issues are identified that need to be addressed to improve program effectiveness and implications for standards and guiding principles are discussed.
80 pages / $11
Evaluating Men’s Treatment Programmes: an Introduction for Service Providers
Kropp, P. Randall and Hart, Stephen D.
Evaluation of Three Assaultive Men’s Treatment Programs: a summary report
Kropp, P. Randall and Bodnarchuk, Mark
In May of 1996, an inter-ministerial committee representing the Ministries of Attorney General (Corrections Branch), Health (Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission), and Women’s Equality initiated and committed funds to a three year plan to evaluate assaultive men’s programs in British Columbia. It is of course impractical to evaluate every assaultive men’s community program in the province at once; at last count there were over 40 such programs in existence. Moreover, it is unnecessary to do so given the similarity in structure and design of the programs. There are of course minor variations among them, but all are currently required to adhere to the Guiding Principles for Services in British Columbia. Thus, it was determined that three programs would be targeted, one for each year of initiative. Each of these evaluations has been published separately by the BCIFV, from which information concerning these studies is available upon request. The purpose of this report is to summarize the most important findings reported in each of these three evaluations. In the final section of this report, we make some comparisons between the three programs and offer a series of recommendations for improving future evaluation efforts.
26 pages / $10
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Guiding Principles for Assaultive Men’s Treatment in Correctional Centres
Trimble, D.
In 1992 the document, Wife Assault Intervention: Programs for Men, Guiding Principles for Services in British Columbia (Bell, Browning and Hamilton) was released. Over the last two years assaultive men’s treatment has been introduced in most correctional centres in the province.
The philosophy and goals of the original Guiding Principles remains an appropriate cornerstone of work with assaultive men whether they are in the community or incarcerated. However, it quickly became apparent that some principles did not apply or needed revision and that new principles needed to be written for programs operating in correctional centres. For these reasons Forensic Psychiatric Commission of the BC Ministry of Health provided funding for the revision of these principles.
Some of the areas of revision include: coordination, treatment modality, confidentiality, contact with women partners and correctional centre staff education. Changes in regard to Freedom of Information are reflected in the document. Some of the changes are more general and reflect a need to revise and update the original principles.
These principles should be of particular interest and use to counsellors who are working or plan to work in a correctional centre, the agency that administers programs in the correctional centre, forensic clinic coordinators, victim service workers, battered women’s advocacy groups and correctional centre staff.
38 pages / $8
Predicting Cessation of Intimate Assaultiveness after Group Treatment
Bodnarchuk, M., Kropp, P. Randall, Ogloff, James R. P., Hart, Stephen D., Dutton, Donald G.
Psychological and Behavioural Typologies of Men Who Assault Their Female Partners
Bodnarchuk, Mark, Ph.D.
This literature review and research study investigates the psychological and behavioural characteristics of men who assault their female partners. The study findings support the claim that spousal assaulters are a heterogeneous population, information that is useful in the treatment and management of this population.
56 pages / $10
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Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP): structured professional guidelines for assessing risk of sexual violence
Hart, Stephen D., Kropp, P. Randall, Laws, D. Richard, with Kalver, Jessica, Logan, Caroline, and Watt, Kelly A.
(From the Preface)
Structured professional guidelines are designed to assist the process of risk assessment and management by requiring evaluators to consider, at a minimum, a set of risk factors deemed important in the scientific and professional literatures. The RSVP is similar to previous guidelines in many respects, but also incorporates new features that we hope will increase its utility in risk management and forensic decision-making. These new features include: specification of procedures for obtaining assessment information, including past sexual violence, to assist anamnestic analysis; expended consideration of risk factors related to manageability; separate coding of judgements concerning the presence and relevance of risk factors; and incorporation of scenario-based risk assessment methods.
128 pages / $55
SARA: Manual for the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide, 2nd Edition
Kropp, P. R., Hart, S. D., Webster, C. D. & Eaves, D.
This 2nd Edition handbook incorporates changes and enhancements to the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment (SARA), a clinical checklist of risk factors for spousal assault. It comprises 20 individual items identified by an in-depth review of the empirical literature (Cooper, M. 1993) and by a review of articles written by clinicians with extensive experience in evaluating men who abuse their partners. An expanded introduction includes a discussion of various applications of the SARA, including its use in specialized settings such as correctional institutions. Sections have also been added on Coding and Communication of SARA findings. The SARA may be used for decision-making purposes by psychologists, psychiatrists and other experienced clinicians, as well as correctional officers.
68 pages / $20
SVR-20: Manual for the Sexual Violence Risk-20: professional guidelines for assessing risk of sexual violence
Boer, D., Hart, S.D., Kropp, P.R., Webster, C.D.
This manual describes one of several risk assessment instruments developed over the past few years by academics and forensic mental health professionals affiliated with the Mental Health, Law and Policy Institute at Simon Fraser University. The target audience is professionals who deliver services in the field. Contents include assessment issues, the SVR-20 methodology, and definitions of risk factors.
96 pages / $30
Sentencing in the Context of Domestic Violence: A Review of the Literature and Analysis of Disposition Data
Palmer, Janet
This review examines the criminal sentencing of violent domestic offenders with specific emphasis on the Canadian judiciary’s response. Given the prevalence of domestic assault cases in the courts, those non-fatal assaults occurring within “intimate” relationship serve as the primary focus of this report. In addition to covering issues pertaining to the criminal sentencing of violent domestic offenders, disposition statistics from a large Provincial Court jurisdiction in British Columbia are presented and analyzed.
30 pages / $10
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Setting Standards and Guiding Principles for the Assessment, Treatment and Management of Sex Offenders in British Columbia: A Series of Background Papers Based on Current Literature
Cooper, M.
The papers in this publication can be read in one package or disseminated singly. It is suggested that all read the first paper. Within each paper, implications for standard setting are included in the discussion. The papers are: 1. Approaching the literature from a standard setting point of view; 2. Overview of recent theoretical developments; 3. Biomedical approaches to the assessment and treatment of sex offenders; 4. Denial, minimization and deviant arousal: Psychophysiological approaches to assessment of sex offenders; 5. Issues specific to phallometry; 6. Victim involvement in the assessment, treatment and supervision of sex offenders; 7. Risk assessment of sex offenders; 8. Working with sex offenders.
126 pages / $10
Standards and Guidelines for the Assessment, Treatment and Management of Sex Offenders in British Columbia
Pang, Bessie & Sturrock, Robert
These standards and guidelines were developed for the assessment, treatment and management of sex offenders in British Columbia They are intended to assist new and existing sex offender programmes in developing and supporting clinical and management practices in accordance with current knowledge in the field.
Copies of this 60-page publication were initially distributed to staff by the Correctional Service of Canada, the BC Corrections Branch and the Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission.
50 pages / $10
Violence Against Women in Relationships: Intervention Programs for Men (with revised Guiding Principles)
Bell, J., Browning, J. & Hamilton, A.
This two-part package was developed for use by service providers working with assaultive men in the province of British Columbia. The package includes: “Revised Guiding Principles for Services in British Columbia”; and “Program Development Guide.” Written in 1992. Revised 1999 edition.
$10 / package of two
$5 / revised Guiding principles only
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