Stopping domestic violence in urban and rural areas: evaluating and improving the effectiveness of domestic violence perpetrator programs.

家庭暴力影响到多达36%的妇女（Mouzos等，2004年）。其每年的经济成本为81亿美元（Access Economics 2004）。66%的病例有儿童在场（Bagshaw等，1999年）。对妇女和儿童的影响是心理健康状况不佳、无家可归和工作/教育成绩受损（VicHealth， 2004年）。由于男性施暴者往往是连环罪犯（Hansen et al . 2004），澳大利亚有制止暴力的项目。关于它们的价值有有限的和有争议的发现，也没有发表对澳大利亚农村项目的评估。这项研究解决了这些重要的知识差距，并对全国有益，因为这些知识最终可以减少家庭暴力的流行。

Domestic violence affects up to 36% of women (Mouzos et.al 2004). Its annual economic cost is $8.1b (Access Economics 2004). In 66% of cases children are present (Bagshaw et.al 1999). Effects on women and children are poor mental health, homelessness and impaired work/education performance (VicHealth 2004). As male perpetrators tend to be serial offenders (Hansen et al 2004), there are Australian programs to stop the violence. There are limited and contentious findings about their value and no published evaluation of programs in rural Australia. This research addresses these significant knowledge gaps and is nationally beneficial as the knowledge can ultimately reduce domestic violence prevalence.