December 2011
Funded by BJS Grant 2009-BJ-CX-K038

There are over 1,000 domestic violence incidents reported to the police each year in Vermont. It is one of the more prevalent crimes in the state. For men who are convicted of battering women, the Vermont Department of Corrections provides several batterer intervention programs aimed at changing the batterers’ behavior. This study did not evaluate the efficacy of specific programs. Rather, this study examined the rate of recidivism and criminal history typology of offenders in an effort to inform policy makers about who is likely to recidivate.

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