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TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with treatment orders or educational programs as a community penalty applied to people sentenced for gender violence, and try to focus on the problems that confront the different actors intervening in it.
Abstract: This paper deals with ‘treatment orders’ or ‘educational programs’ as a community penalty applied to people sentenced for gender violence. The paper follows the implementation of this penalty and tries to focus on the problems that confront the different actors intervening in it. In the first part the judicial system is analyzed, in the second we show the problems that face the probation officers in Catalunya, and finally we approach the perspective of the psychologists who are directly engaged in the work with the men sentenced for gender violence.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate British criminal justice responses and treatment programmes for men who use violence against a woman partner, and compare them with more traditional sanctions such as fines and probation.
Abstract: Changing Violent Men is based on the evaluation of British criminal justice responses and treatment programmes for men who use violence against a woman partner. Court enforced abuser programmes are compared with more traditional sanctions such as fines and probation. Qualitative and quantitative data are used to delineate patterns of personal change and to allow the men and women involved to speak about their lives and the impact of criminal justice interventions upon them.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors tried to assess the comparative effects of community service and prison sentences of up to 14 days, through a controlled experiment in Switzerland in which 123 convicts have been randomly assigned.
Abstract: Community service, along with other new sanctions, has been recommended in many Western countries as an alternative to incarceration over many years. Despite a rich literature on evaluations of so-called alternative sanctions, random assignment has only exceptionally been used in this field, and (short-term) imprisonment has never been an option in such designs. The present study tried to assess the comparative effects of community service and prison sentences of up to 14 days, through a controlled experiment in Switzerland in which 123 convicts have been randomly assigned. The results show no difference with respect to later employment history and social and private life circumstances. However, re-arrest by the police was more frequent among those randomly assigned to prison than among those selected for community service. Prisoners also developed more unfavourable attitudes towards their sentence and the criminal justice system.
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