Ellen Pence is best known for her advocacy and batterer programming with the Duluth program on behalf of women’s experience with abuse (Gondolf, 2010). Ellen’s activism all started with a generic community organizing training that opened all the possibilities that contributed to social change (Dasgupta, 2010). From there, Ellen began to work in anti-domestic violence and that’s where she and her colleagues developed the Duluth model (Dasgupta, 2010). The basis of Ellen’s advocacy in anti-domestic violence was to increase the awareness of gender oppression (Gondolf, 2010). In the culture of domestic violence, gender oppression has been nearly taken over by the notion of victimization. Ellen’s efforts to adhere the notion of victimization highlighted
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The Duluth model uses an interagency collaborative approach involving law enforcement, judicial and human services in response to making women safe (Dasgupta, 2010). According Pence and Shepard (1999), the model is understood as the “men’s [re-education] curriculum, the use of a mandatory arrest policy, the use of a tracking system to monitor the criminal justice system, or interagency coordination”(p.4). Ellen’s contributions to the Duluth program were successful thru facilitating trainings, talks, writing, and curriculum work to draw more supporters to the programming (Pence & Shepard, 1999). Through Ellen’s efforts to transform legal and social institutions, it led her to create the coordinated community response (CCR), an intervention strategy, which helped with domestic violent cases (Dasgupta, 2010). The primary goal of CCR is to protect victims of ongoing abuse and reeducate …show more content…
Through the stories these women voiced and the impacts of their partners’ behaviors the Power and Control (P&C) wheel was created (Wynn, 2010). Ellen and her colleagues at DAIP designed the P&C wheel to describe what happened to battered women when their intimate partners beat them (Dasgupta, 2010). The P&C wheel acknowledges the signs of “…intimidation, threats, emotional abuse, economic abuse, male privilege, using children, and minimizing and blaming as well as physical and sexual violence”(Gondolf, 2010, p.993). The wheel has become a teaching tool to identify the acts of abuse that are hidden in psychological explanation of behaviors. Ellen’s contributions to designing the P&C wheel encapsulates a battered women’s story
The Duluth model uses an interagency collaborative approach involving law enforcement, judicial and human services in response to making women safe (Dasgupta, 2010). According Pence and Shepard (1999), the model is understood as the “men’s [re-education] curriculum, the use of a mandatory arrest policy, the use of a tracking system to monitor the criminal justice system, or interagency coordination”(p.4). Ellen’s contributions to the Duluth program were successful thru facilitating trainings, talks, writing, and curriculum work to draw more supporters to the programming (Pence & Shepard, 1999). Through Ellen’s efforts to transform legal and social institutions, it led her to create the coordinated community response (CCR), an intervention strategy, which helped with domestic violent cases (Dasgupta, 2010). The primary goal of CCR is to protect victims of ongoing abuse and reeducate …show more content…
Through the stories these women voiced and the impacts of their partners’ behaviors the Power and Control (P&C) wheel was created (Wynn, 2010). Ellen and her colleagues at DAIP designed the P&C wheel to describe what happened to battered women when their intimate partners beat them (Dasgupta, 2010). The P&C wheel acknowledges the signs of “…intimidation, threats, emotional abuse, economic abuse, male privilege, using children, and minimizing and blaming as well as physical and sexual violence”(Gondolf, 2010, p.993). The wheel has become a teaching tool to identify the acts of abuse that are hidden in psychological explanation of behaviors. Ellen’s contributions to designing the P&C wheel encapsulates a battered women’s story