@article{ref1,
title="Evaluating the effectiveness of a court sponsored abuser treatment program",
journal="Journal of family violence",
year="1989",
author="Chen, Huey -tsyh and Bersani, Carl and Myers, Steven C. and Denton, Robert",
volume="4",
number="4",
pages="309-322",
abstract="The literature on abuser treatment programs reveals the following problems: (1) the dominance of shelter-related abuser programs, (2) little understanding of the effectiveness of such programs, and (3) low recruitment and high attrition rates in shelter-related programs. This study attempts to deal with some of these difficulties by an evaluation of a court mandated abuser treatment program. The sample used in this study includes a treatment group of 120 court-referred abusers and a control group of 101 nonreferred abusers. The research was designed to deal with problems such as differential participation in the treatment sessions and self-selection bias. Results indicated that the relationship between treatment attendance and recidivism was not linear. Only those defendants who attended 75% of the treatment sessions or more have decreased recidivism; others showed no impact. Some policy implications are also discussed.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0885-7482",
doi="10.1007/BF00978573",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00978573"
}