More than 3,000 convicted of domestic violence attended reintegration programs in 2024 and, according to data from the Directorate-General for Reinsertion and Prison Services, 2024 was the year with the highest number of rehabilitation attempts. In these programs, the number of aggressors who eventually repeats it is not yet rigorously known.
Programs for convicts of domestic violence are promoted by the Directorate-General for Reinsertion and Prison Services. The Diário de Notícias had access to preliminary conclusions of the only efficacy study of these programs, and, according to it, 2024 was the year that featured more registered defendants: were 3,200. The average was about 1,700 attackers since 2011, the year in which these programs were launched.
Programs for convicts of domestic violence are applied as part of a judicial penalty or judicial measure in the community and according to the DN aim to “promote in the aggressors the awareness and assumption of the responsibility of violent behavior and the use of alternative strategies (at the same ), with a view to decreasing criminal recurrence. “
The integration of aggressors requires a prior risk assessment to determine whether they bring personal conditions necessary to benefit from these programs that include various phases and techniques. Programs have a minimum duration of 18 months and are only part of menand the work is individual and in groups.
According to the DN, the number of aggressors who eventually recurrsing is not known with rigor.
Last year more than 30,000 complaints were registered for domestic violence and 22 people died.
