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Effects of Short-Term Batterer Treatment for Detained Arrestees in Sacramento County, California, 1999-2000

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Principal Investigator(s): Taylor, Bruce G.; Maxwell, Christopher D.

Summary: This study evaluated the effects of a program for detained arrestees developed by the Sacramento Sheriff's Department. The program was set up as an early intervention program to provide domestic violence (DV) education for arrestees during their time of detention before going to court. This evaluation used an experimental design. The researchers randomly assigned 629 batterers to either the batterer treatment wing of the jail or to a no-treatment control group in another wing of the ... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04383.v1

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