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Dialog mod Vold — Denmark's Nationwide Free Treatment Service for Domestic-Violence Perpetrators

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 26% 85/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Dialog mod Vold, Denmark's free treatment service for domestic-violence perpetrators, has run since 2002 (national since 2004) across six cities. Evaluated by Socialstyrelsen (2011) and VIVE (2017), it treats perpetrators alongside separate support for partners and children.

Dialog mod Vold — Denmark's Nationwide Free Treatment Service for Domestic-Violence Perpetrators

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Dialog mod Vold (Askov Fonden)
Period: 2002–present (national since 2004)
Keywords: domestic violence, perpetrator treatment, social services, mental health

Context

Dialog mod Vold is Denmark's free, government-funded treatment service for people who use partner violence, run by the Askov Foundation since 2002 and expanded nationally in 2004, now operating from six cities.

Results

Denmark's Social Authority (Socialstyrelsen) assessed the programme in 2011 and concluded it reduces physical and psychological violence 'to a high degree'; VIVE rated its child-focused treatment the most promising of its kind in Denmark in 2017.

Conclusions

Public summaries stop short of a headline recidivism or violence-reduction percentage; a 2020 outcome report exists without its figures detailed publicly, limiting external quantification of impact.

Implementation

Indicative cost: Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results: Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills: Askov Foundation clinical staff (cognitive-behavioural and psychodynamic treatment), parallel support workers for partners and children

Conditions for success

parallel tracks for partners/children alongside perpetrator treatment
sustained public funding (secured a permanent government grant in 2024)

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes CERV — Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-08-31
Dialog mod Vold (Askov Fonden) — accessed 2026-08-31
Dialog mod Vold — Documentation — accessed 2026-08-31
EUCPN — Dialogue Against Domestic Violence — accessed 2026-08-31
IFS Network — Permanent Grant for Dialog mod Vold — accessed 2026-08-31

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Quality score: 85/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 26% in this catalogue (1069 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

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Transferability / replicability2/3

Operating from six cities under one national funding model since 2004 and catalogued by the EU's EUCPN as a transferable good practice, though no confirmed replication outside Denmark was found.

Impact on gender equality1/1

Socialstyrelsen's 2011 evaluation concluded the programme reduces both physical and psychological violence among clients to a high degree, though without a published effect-size figure.

Effectiveness1/1

Two independent named evaluators (Socialstyrelsen 2011, VIVE 2017) each concluded the treatment approach works, with VIVE rating the children's track the most promising practice of its kind in Denmark.

Efficiency0/1

No cost-per-client or comparative cost-efficiency data was found in the available documentation.

Evaluated outcomes1/1

The programme has been the subject of at least three named evaluations/reports (Socialstyrelsen 2011, VIVE 2017, an unpublished 2020 outcome report) plus a peer-reviewed clinical study using its client data.

Sustainability1/1

Continuously operating for over two decades and, per IFS Network's 2024 reporting, recently secured a permanent government grant rather than short-term project funding.

Achievement / evidence1/1

Scaled from a single Copenhagen initiative in 2002 to a six-city national service, treating perpetrators, partners and children in parallel tracks.

Gender-mainstreaming embedding1/1

Directly targets intimate-partner violence — a core gender-equality concern — with parallel, gender-aware tracks for perpetrators (mostly men), female partners and children.

Curator validation1/1

Independently catalogued as a good practice by the EU's European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN), constituting third-party validation beyond the operator's own claims.

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Evidoria. Dialog mod Vold — Denmark's Nationwide Free Treatment Service for Domestic-Violence Perpetrators. Persistent ID: 80547220-90db-4127-af78-283467a507fc.

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