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==Criticism==

Criticism of the Duluth Model has centered on the program's viewsexist thatinsistence abusivethat men are perpetrators who are violent because they have been socialized in a patriarchy that condones male violence, and that women are victims who are violent only in self-defense.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scholarship.law.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2027&context=mlr|title=Beyond Duluth: A Broad Spectrum of Treatment for a Broad Spectrum Domestic Violence|last=Rizza|first=Johnna|website=scholarship.law.umt.edu|access-date=2020-03-22|archive-date=29 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629131815/https://scholarship.law.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2027&context=mlr|url-status=dead}}</ref> Some critics argue that "programs based on the Duluth Model may ignore research linking domestic violence to [[substance abuse]] and psychological problems, such as attachment disorders, traced to childhood abuse or neglect, or the absence of a history of adequate socialization and training."<ref name="MTwohey"/><ref name=Fisher2009>Fisher, Andy, Rick Goodwin and Mark Patton. 2009. [https://web.archive.org/web/20191214221023/https://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/inquiries/cornwall/en/report/research_papers/Party_RP/4_Men_and_Healing-Dec_24_2008.pdf “Men & Healing: Theory, Research, and Practice in Working with Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse.”] The Men's Project, Funded by the Cornwall Public Inquiry</ref>

Others criticize the Duluth Model as being overly confrontational rather than therapeutic, focusing solely on changing the abuser's actions and attitudes rather than dealing with underlying emotional and psychological issues.<ref name="Fisher2009" /> Donald Dutton, a psychology professor at the [[University of British Columbia]] who has studied abusive personalities, states: "The Duluth Model was developed by people who didn't understand anything about therapy."<ref name="MTwohey">{{cite web | last= Twohey | first = Megan | title = How Can Domestic Violence Be Stopped? | publisher = Chicago Tribune | url = http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-abusers-02-jan02,0,1147422.story?page=2 | date = 2 January 2009 | access-date = 28 January 2009}}</ref> Dutton also observes that "lesbian battering is more frequent than heterosexual battering".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dutton|first=Donald G.|date=February 1994|title=Patriarchy and Wife Assault: The Ecological Fallacy|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/15503361|journal=[[Violence and Victims]]|volume=9|issue=2|pages=167–182|doi=10.1891/0886-6708.9.2.167|issn=0886-6708|pmid=7696196|s2cid=35155731}}</ref> Philip W. Cook comments that in the case of homosexual domestic violence, the patriarchy is absent: there is no male dominance of women in same-sex relationships, and in fact female on female abuse is reported more than twice as frequently as male on male abuse.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cook |first=Philip W. |date=2009 |title=Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wpudCuNgNPcC&pg=PA36 |___location=[[Santa Barbara, California]] |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |pages=36–39 |isbn=9780313356186}}</ref> Furthermore, some critics argue that the model ignores the reality that women can be the perpetrators of domestic violence in heterosexual relationships. Its proponents counter that the Duluth model is effective and makes best use of scarce resources.<ref>Michael Paymar and Graham Barnes, "[http://www.bwjp.org/files/bwjp/files/Countering_Confusion_Duluth_Model.pdf Countering Confusion About the Duluth Model] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319081107/http://www.bwjp.org/files/bwjp/files/Countering_Confusion_Duluth_Model.pdf |date=19 March 2015 }}", Battered Women’s Justice Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota</ref> Ellen Pence herself writes: