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‘Time out’: a strategy for reducing men’s violence against women in relationships?

Wistow, R.; Kelly, L.; Westmarland, N.

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Authors

Richard Wistow richard.wistow@durham.ac.uk
Senior Planning & Forecasting Manager

L. Kelly



Abstract

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.

Citation

Wistow, R., Kelly, L., & Westmarland, N. (2017). ‘Time out’: a strategy for reducing men’s violence against women in relationships?. Violence Against Women, 23(6), 730-748. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801216647944

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date May 17, 2016
Publication Date May 1, 2017
Deposit Date Jan 29, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Violence Against Women
Print ISSN 1077-8012
Electronic ISSN 1552-8448
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 23
Issue 6
Pages 730-748
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801216647944

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