Symposium – Dealing with Intimate Partner Violence Offenders, Improving the System by Questioning It, Agen, 09th and 10th of October 2024
The 9th and 10th of October 2024, ÉNAP has organised its 7th international research days in the penitentiary environment, themed on dealing with intimate partner violence offenders.
Since 2019, French penal policy has made intimate partner violence one of its priorities because, amongst other things, repressive measures applied to this day against this type of violence have proven inefficient. With these settings, and in order to modernise our policy on the matter, it was essential to collectively integrate and reflect to this phenomenon’s complexity.
More specifically, the purpose of this event was to focus on innovative practices for supporting perpetrators of intimate partner violence, and exchange over their challenges and multiple implications. These two research days have provided the opportunity to gather about forty researchers, practitioners and decision-makers from France, Europe and beyond to discuss the diversity of approaches, their philosophies and the practices that underpin them. This symposium has also permitted to better understand the effects of these practices on the political, social and individual level.
The symposium was structured in three themes:
1. the question of gender in the understanding of the phenomenon and in intervention practices
2. questioning the “accountability” while dealing with offenders of intimate partner violence
3. the question of the social reintegration of men convicted for intimate partner violence. Read Conference Proceedings (coming soon)
Interpreted in French, English and Spanish, this symposium was recorded. You are more than welcome to view, or review, the interventions:
Institutional greeting – Sophie Bondil, ÉNAP’s director
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Introduction of the symposium – Paul Mbanzoulou, Director of the Research and Diffusion ÉNAP
Photographer Camille Gharbi’s introduction on intimate partner violence
AXIS 1 : THE QUESTION OF GENDER IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHENOMENON AND IN INTERVENTION PRACTICES
Introduction of the first axis by Sophie Bancon, actress
The role of gender in understanding the phenomenon of intimate partner violence
Moderator : Denis Salas, Honorary Magistrate, National School for the Judiciary, Bordeaux, France
The Patriarchal Legal Matrix of Marital Violence (8th Century BC to the End of the 19th Century); Emmanuelle Burgaud, Senior Lecturer, accredited to supervise research in History of the Law, Bordeaux University, France
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A Better Understanding of Concepts for Better Judgements; Éric Corbaux, Public Prosecutor, Poitiers Court of Appeal, France
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The Structural Causes of Domestic Violence: some Thoughts; Catherine Rossi, Professor at the School of Social Work and Criminology, Laval University, Quebec
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Denormalising Gender Violence and Masculinity Disorders; Éric Macé, Professor of Sociology, Bordeaux University, France
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The place given to gender in intervention practices
Moderator : David Lauréote, Assistant Director of the Insertion and Probation, Directorate of the Penitentiary Administration (DAP), France
Gender, Equality and Masculinities Integrated into the Professional Practices of Socio-Judicial Associations; Emilie Boutin, Gender Equality Officer, Citoyens & Justice, France; Vincent Berthebaud and Fabienne Pele, Social-Judicial Interveners Adaes44, Social-Judicial Penal Service Socio-Educational Judicial Control, Nantes, France
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Why is there a Gender Perspective in the Istanbul Convention? Severina Spassova, Administrator, GREVIO, Council of Europe
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The Role of Gender in Intervention Practices: Contribution of the European Network “Work With Perpetrators” Alessandra Pauncz, Executive Director, European Network for the Work With Perpetrators of Domestic Violence (WWP)
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AXIS 2: QUESTIONING THE "ACCOUNTABILITY" WHILE DEALING WITH
Introductory reading intervention by Sophie Bancon, actress
Framework, content and effects of collective programs intended for perpetrators of domestic violence
Moderator : Astrid Hirschelmann, University Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Caen University, France
Round table: video
Ana Oliveira, Psychologist and Probation Counsellor ; Jorge Monteiro, Head of Service, Directorate-General of Reintegration and Prison Services, Portugal
Yadira Velasco Lopez, Psychologist of the Penitentiary Centre of Teixero, Coruña, Spain
Élise Curt-Paumier, Penitentiary Integration and Probation Officer and Psychologist, Loiret Penitentiary Integration and Probation Office, France
Ljiljana Antolović et Ivana Dragoslavić, Service for the Development of the Probation System, Croatian Ministry of Justice and Public Administration, Croatia
Ellinor Hallebro, National Expert in Domestic Violence Treatment for the Prison and Probation Service, Sweden
Perspectives and experiences of perpetrators of intimate partner violence
Moderator : Éric Macé, Sociology Professor, Bordeaux University
Between Accountability and Challenging Penal Decisions: Discursive Strategies and Representations of Intimate Partner Violence Offenders Marine Delaunay, post-doctoral researcher at the Research in Penal law Centre of the Free University of Brussels
Ending Intimate Partner Violence among Aboriginal Adults in Quebec (Remote intervention) Renée Brassard, Director of the School of Social Work and Criminology, Professor of Criminology, Laval Université, Quebec
“It’s not me! … Then what?”: Symbolic Approach over the Global and Individual Support in CHRS (Accommodation and Social Reintegration Centres): Supporting the Subject as an Actor and Author of Their Own Accountability
Estelle Soudy, Clinical Psychologist, Sauvegarde Association, Agen, France
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Holding perpetrators accountable: recommendations, experiments and trainings
Moderator : Nathalie Jaffré, Director of Training, ÉNAP
Reinforcing the Management of Intimate Partner Violence Offenders: National Recommendations and Pilot Programs. Laetitia Bercier, National Referent for the Fight against Domestic Violence, Prison Administration Directorate (DAP), France
Lyon’s Interregional Penitentiary Services Directorate (DISP) and Training in Intimate Partner Violence: Engagment and Pragmatism Laurence Zobel, Penitentiary Integration and Probation Officer, Methodology and Professions Support Referent (Lyon penitentiary directorate, France)
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Training on the Management of Intimate Partner Violence Offenders in order to Prevent Reoffending; Cécile Le Chalony et Corinne Zamora, Probation and Criminology Department’s CPIP (ÉNAP), France
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AXIS 3 : THE QUESTION OF THE SOCIAL REINTEGRATION OF MEN CONVICTED FOR INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
Introductory reading intervention by Sophie Bancon, actress
Mechanisms for maintaining links between perpetrators of intimate partner violence and society
Moderator : Catherine Rossi, Professor at the School of Social Work and Criminology, Laval University, Quebec
The Electronic Anti-Approach Ankle Bracelet: Operation and Uses of Surveillance Technology in the Fight against Intimate Partner Violence Franck Ollivon, Lecturer in Social and Political Geography, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Restorative Justice and Intimate Partner Violence: Legitimate Path or Inap- propriate Approach? How to Care for Victims and Reintegrate Offenders? Anne Lemonne, Lecturer at the Free University of Brussels, Researcher in Criminology at the National Institute of Criminalistics and Criminology Belgium
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Training and Purpose of the Support Centres for Perpetrators of Domestic Violence (CPCA), Charlotte Besseau, Project Manager, National Coordination of CPCAs, Marion Senes, Head of the CPCA Kaléïdon North, region Provence-Alpes- Côte d’Azur
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Stakes, challenges and limits of the penal management of intimate partner violence
Moderator : Guillaume Brie, Sociologist, Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Applied Research in the Penitentiary Field, ÉNAP
Protection of the Victim and Responses to the Perpetrator of Violence: the Difficult Articulation of Criminal Law and Civil Law. Marie Lamarche, Professor of Private Law and Criminal Sciences, University of Bordeaux, France and Elisa Baron, Lecturer. Institute of Criminal Sciences and Justice, ISCJ University of Bordeaux, France
“It Was My Impulsivity. Had It Been a Man, It Would Have Been the Same”: Questioning the Place and Role of Emotions in Collective Care Lucie Hernandez, Lecturer-Researcher in Psychology, ÉNAP, France
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Stakes, Challenges and Limits of the Penal Management of Intimate Partner Violence: Point of View of a Field Manager Omar Kaabeche, Penitentiary Integration and Probation Director, Aveyron Penitentiary Integration and Probation Office, France and Isabelle Halbiniak, Penitentiary Integration and Probation Assistant Director, Aveyron Penitentiary Integration and Probation Office, France
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Towards a global approach of intimate partner violence
Moderator : Paul Mbanzoulou, Director of the Research and Diffusion Directorate, ÉNAP
Stakes and Challenges Regarding the End of Intimate Partner Violence: A Partnership and Clinical Data to Broaden the Discussion, Geneviève Lessard, Professor at the School of Social Work and Criminology, Laval University, Quebec and Valérie Meunier, Director of the Impulsive Individuals Support Group (GAPI)
Overview of the Caledonian System: Responding to Domestic Violence in Scotland, Catherine Knipe, Locality Manager Justice Social Work, and Allyson McLaughlin, Senior Social Worker – Programme Delivery Team, Justice Social Work, Dumfries and Galloway Council, Scotland, UK.
Social Reintegration Program for Prisoners Convicted of Intimate Partner Violence
Gladys Esther Sánchez Richiez, Director General and Ydelise Pérez Sierra, psychologist and lecturer at the Higher Institute for Penitentiary and Correctional Studies, Dominican Republic
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Synthesis of the symposium
Jean-Charles Froment, University Professor, Assigned to the Penitentiary Administration Director, France
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END OF SYMPOSIUM
Emmanuel Razous, Assistant Director of the Prison Administration, France (remote)
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