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Since 2006, Valencia's Programa Contexto has run court-referred group treatment for men convicted of intimate-partner violence under Spain's Organic Law 1/2004. A 212-participant study linked recidivism-risk reduction to avoiding reconviction.
ES52Programa Contexto is a community-based intervention for men convicted of intimate-partner violence against women, run jointly since 2006 by the Universitat de València's Department of Social Psychology and the Asociación PSIMA in Valencia, Spain, created partly because the region lacked enough treatment places to implement Spain's Organic Law 1/2004, under which courts can divert convicted offenders serving sentences under two years, with no prior criminal record, into supervised group treatment.
A structural-equation-model evaluation of 212 court-mandated participants tracked three change indicators — perceived severity of the violence committed, assumption of responsibility, and estimated risk of recidivism. Reduction in recidivism risk, the strongest predictor of avoiding reconviction, was greatest among participants with lower alcohol consumption, shorter sentences, lower impulsivity and higher life satisfaction.
The published evaluation measures within-programme change and predictors of that change among participants, not a randomised comparison against a no-treatment control group, so its effect size relative to receiving no intervention is not established by this evidence base.
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