Educational programs as alternative penalty for cases of ocasional gender violence

Abstract

This paper deals with ‘treatment orders’ or ‘educational programs’ as a community penalty applied to people sentenced for gender violence. The paper follows the implementation of this penalty and tries to focus on the problems that confront the different actors intervening in it. In the first part the judicial system is analyzed, in the second we show the problems that face the probation officers in Catalunya, and finally we approach the perspective of the psychologists who are directly engaged in the work with the men sentenced for gender violence.