title: New pathways in the evaluation of programmes for men who perpetrate violence against their female partners.
abstract: Today, evaluation research in the field of intervention programmes for men who perpetrate violence against their female partners still makes a fragmentary impression. Across Europe various evaluation studies have been performed. However, the methodologies applied are too heterogeneous to allow the combination of the results in a meta-analytical way. In this paper we propose a future pathway for organising outcome evaluation studies of domestic violence perpetrator programmes in community settings, so that today's problems in this field can be overcome. In a pragmatic framework that acknowledges the limited pre-conditions for evaluation studies in the area of domestic violence perpetrator programmes as it is today, feasible approaches for outcome evaluation are outlined, with recent developments in the field taken as starting points. The framework for organising future evaluation studies of work with perpetrators of domestic violence is presented together with a strategy to promote this framework. International networks of practitioners and researchers play a central role in this strategy through upskilling the area of practical work, preparing the ground for evaluation research and improving cooperation between practitioners and researchers. This paper is based on the results of the European funded project IMPACT (under the Daphne-III-funding programme of the European Commission).
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Work Science, Centre for European Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sprängkullsgatan 25, Gothenburg 40530, Sweden. Electronic address: katarzyna.wojnicka@gu.se.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wojnicka
authors.affiliation: Association for Men's and Gender Issues Styria, Dietrichsteinplatz 15/8 Stock, 8010 Graz, Austria. Electronic address: christian.scambor@gmx.at.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Scambor
authors.affiliation: Männerberatung Wien, Senefeldergasse 2/25, 1100 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: heinrich.kraus@le-kri.at.
authors.forename: Heinrich
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kraus
mesh_terms: D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D012944:Social Support
keywords: Domestic violence perpetrators; Effectiveness; Evaluation; Impact; Multi-country evaluation; Multi-site evaluation; Outcome evaluation; Perpetrator programmes; Theory of change; Work with perpetrators