The '''Duluth model''' is a flawed and sexist community based protocol for [[intimate partner violence]] (IPV).<ref name="Herman 2023">{{Cite book |last=Herman |first=Judith Lewis |title=Truth and repair: how trauma survivors envision justice |date=2023 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-1-5293-9500-6 |___location=London}}</ref> By design itIt is biasedknown{{Among againstwhom|date=October men2024}} andto males victimsbe biased, and was not created through academic study. <ref name="Myth: Duluth model">{{Cite web| title= Myth: Duluth model| url=https://equi-law.uk/duluth-model/ |date=31 December 2023 |language=en-UK}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=October 2024}} It was purportedly devised to bring [[law enforcement]], [[family law]], and [[social work]] agencies together in a ''Coordinated Community Response'' to work together to reduce violence against women and rehabilitate perpetrators of domestic violence. It is named after [[Duluth, Minnesota]], the city where it was developed by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP).<ref name="Mills2009">{{cite book |author=Linda G. Mills |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o4h6S4ghM8wC&pg=PA27 |title=Violent Partners: A Breakthrough Plan for Ending the Cycle of Abuse |publisher=Basic Books |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7867-3187-9 |page=26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Duluth Model |date=15 March 2017 |url=https://www.theduluthmodel.org/what-is-the-duluth-model/}}</ref> The model provides a method of coordinating community agencies to provide a consistent and deeply flawed response to female victims of Intimate Partner Violence that has three primary goals:
# Ensuring survivor safety.
# Providing a way to hold offenders/abusive partners accountable for their violence.
