Time Out”

A Strategy for Reducing Men’s Violence Against Women in Relationships

Bibliographic Data

ID12436622
AuthorsRichard Wistow (Durham University, Durham, UK, corresponding author), Liz Kelly (0000-0001-7539-0486, London Metropolitan University, London, UK), Patrick L Kelly (0000-0003-3142-997X, London Metropolitan University), Nicole Westmarland (0000-0002-1964-248X, Durham University, Durham, UK)
Year2016
Volume23
Issue6
Pages730-748
Publication date2016-05-18
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801216647944
PMID27189901
OpenAlexW2406207435
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

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

Criminology · Domestic violence · Interrupt · Medical emergency · Misappropriation · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · Suicide prevention · Child Abuse and Trauma · Engineering · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology

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