READER COMMENT: If the government created treatment programs and used community treatment orders to force those suspected of domestic abuse into these programs it would go a long way to fix this scourge, writes Michelle Murtough. DontLookAway
Too often we are focused on the police to solve what is, in essence, a social and mental health issue. Punishment in the short term may work but those that abuse will go back to their old ways, escaping from an abuser successfully simply means that the abuser will move onto their next victim, we need solutions to fix these problems.
They could provide free treatment and try to reach out and educate men that if you have trouble controlling your anger, if you control your partner and abuse them that you need help, that you need treatment to stop hurting your family, to stop you from turning into a murderer.
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