Paul Teft links the issues raised during the long-running debate in Probation Journal on approaches to domestic violence, to his experience of developing a domestic violence groupwork programme at the Camberwell Probation Centre in Inner London. He argues that while other analyses may have some merit in enhancing practice, the radical feminist approach still provides an essential theoretical foundation to effective work with violent men.
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