6. domestic batterer
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CJCJ's Executive Director Daniel Macallair, is a practitioner-in-residence at San Francisco State University (SFSU)'s Department of Criminal Justice Studies. These slides are from his Community Corrections and Sentencing course materials.
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6. domestic batterer
- 1. www.cjcj.org © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013 40 Boardman Place San Francisco, CA 94103 Directs violence against an intimate for control or manipulation DOMESTIC BATTERER
- 2. www.cjcj.org © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013 40 Boardman Place San Francisco, CA 94103 • Category 1 • Category 2 • Category 3 BATTERERS FALL INTO 3 CATEGORIES
- 3. www.cjcj.org © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013 40 Boardman Place San Francisco, CA 94103 • Situational offender • No previous criminal involvement • Unlikely to use weapons • No mental health or emotional adjustment issues • Feels remorse • Highly amenable to treatment CATEGORY 1 BATTERER
- 4. www.cjcj.org © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013 40 Boardman Place San Francisco, CA 94103 • Show history of personal issues • Display pattern of violence and aggression • Resort to violence with little provocation • Driven by combination of personal beliefs and life stressors • Often use weapons • Often express little remorse • Difficult to treat CATEGORY 2 BATTERER
- 5. www.cjcj.org © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013 40 Boardman Place San Francisco, CA 94103 • Possess personality disorder • Display ongoing and consistent pattern of abuse • Internal belief system that embraces violence as legitimate means of exercising control • Express no remorse • Will use weapon and resort to lethal violence • Show one or more personality disorders • Most difficult to successfully treatment CATEGORY 3 BATTERER
- 6. www.cjcj.org © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013 40 Boardman Place San Francisco, CA 94103 • Common Couple Violence: an intermittent response to the occasional conflicts of everyday life, motivated by a need to control a specific situation • Patriarchal Terrorism: Offender commits spousal abuse out of desire to exert total control. Rooted in notion of male privilege MOTIVATION FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- 7. www.cjcj.org © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013 40 Boardman Place San Francisco, CA 94103 • Jailing the batterer and deterrence theory • Recognizing that batterers remain with the victims • Failure to differentiate according to offender typology • Fitting treatment to the offender ISSUES