A Coordinated Community Response To Domestic Violence

We want to describe the "Duluth Model" of criminal justice intervention in domestic violence cases. The Duluth Project (DAIP) is a pioneer in coordinated community responses to woman assault. But it is often misrepresented as a "batterers treatment model", a "mandatory arrest project", or a "no drop prosecution program". Instead, the Duluth project should be seen as a system of networks, agreements, processes and applied principles created by the local shelter movement, criminal justice agencies, and human service programs that were developed in a small northern Minnesota city over a fifteen year period.