CJCJ's Executive Director Daniel Macallair, is a practitioner-in-residence at San Francisco State University (SFSU)'s Department of Criminal Justice Studies. These slides are from his Community Corrections and Sentencing course materials.

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Directs violence against an
intimate for control or
manipulation
DOMESTIC BATTERER

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• Category 1
• Category 2
• Category 3
BATTERERS FALL INTO 3
CATEGORIES

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• Situational offender
• No previous criminal involvement
• Unlikely to use weapons
• No mental health or emotional adjustment issues
• Feels remorse
• Highly amenable to treatment
CATEGORY 1 BATTERER

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• Show history of personal issues
• Display pattern of violence and aggression
• Resort to violence with little provocation
• Driven by combination of personal beliefs and life stressors
• Often use weapons
• Often express little remorse
• Difficult to treat
CATEGORY 2 BATTERER

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• Possess personality disorder
• Display ongoing and consistent pattern of abuse
• Internal belief system that embraces violence as legitimate means of
exercising control
• Express no remorse
• Will use weapon and resort to lethal violence
• Show one or more personality disorders
• Most difficult to successfully treatment
CATEGORY 3 BATTERER

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• Common Couple Violence: an intermittent response to
the occasional conflicts of everyday life, motivated by a
need to control a specific situation
• Patriarchal Terrorism: Offender commits spousal abuse
out of desire to exert total control. Rooted in notion of
male privilege
MOTIVATION FOR DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE

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• Jailing the batterer and deterrence theory
• Recognizing that batterers remain with the victims
• Failure to differentiate according to offender typology
• Fitting treatment to the offender
ISSUES