@article{ref1,
title="Identifying subgroups at high risk of dropping out of domestic batterer treatment: the buffering effects of a high school education",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2007",
author="Stalans, Loretta Jane and Seng, Magnus",
volume="51",
number="2",
pages="151-169",
abstract="This study identifies the subgroups of domestic batterers who are at a low or high risk of failing to complete domestic batterer cognitive behavioral treatment. The sample is composed of 355 domestic batterers ordered to complete treatment, with 31.8% not completing treatment. Three subgroups of batterers were identified as having at least a 60% chance of treatment failure: (a) unemployed generalized aggressors, (b) high school dropouts ordered into substance abuse treatment, and (c) unemployed offenders ordered into substance abuse treatment. Furthermore, a high school education, even when offenders are unemployed or living in poverty, buffers the negative effects of a substance abuse problem among court-mandated batterers required to participate in both domestic violence treatment and substance abuse treatment. Two thirds of substance-abusing high school graduates completed both domestic violence and substance abuse treatment, compared to only one third of the substance-abusing high school dropouts. Implications are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X06290204",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X06290204"
}