By William Collins: Quoting from the web site of the Drive Project, “Drive is an intensive intervention that works with high-harm and serial perpetrators to challenge behaviour and prevent abuse. A few years ago I wrote a review of domestic abuse perpetrator programmes, UK DV Perpetrator Programmes – Part 1.
Drive is a new one. In December 2019, the University of Bristol
published their evaluation of a three-year pilot of Drive. This 189 page
evaluation, led by Marianne Hester, can be found here, with a executive summary here. It is claimed to be, “the
largest evaluation of a perpetrator intervention ever carried out in
the UK, and the largest with a randomised control design”. In this article I deconstruct this evaluation.
I hope the reader will be patient as it is necessary to go into details. Documents of this sort are cleverly scripted. Penetrating the façade to expose the reality beneath requires some labour. Let me give you the punchline:
the claimed benefits of Drive are fraudulent.
I hope the reader will be patient as it is necessary to go into details. Documents of this sort are cleverly scripted. Penetrating the façade to expose the reality beneath requires some labour. Let me give you the punchline:
the claimed benefits of Drive are fraudulent.