Institutional batterer's intervention program within the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

Abstract

The study evaluated the effectiveness of the batterer's intervention program within the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Personal Responsibility of Violence Elimination (P.R.O.V.E.). Through the completion of P.R.O.V.E., inmates should be able to identify their own abusive behavior, identify their thought patterns that lead to abusive behavior, identify alternatives to abusive behavior and identify types of abuse. To determine if the program meets these objectives, inmates participating in the P.R.O.V.E. program were administered a 20 item pre- and post- test. The institutions were Grafton Correctional Institution, Marion Correctional Institution, Richland Correctional Institution and North Coast Correctional Treatment Facility. Findings indicated that program participants were able to identify their own abusive behavior, identify alternatives to abusive behavior and identify types of abuse. Findings of this study did not support hypothesis 2, concluding that program participants were not able to identify their thought patterns that lead to abusive behavior.