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The '''Duluth model''' is a pseudoscientific<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Corvo |first1=Kenneth |title=The Gift of the Magi: Can Attachment, Altruism, and Hope be Mobilized in Treating Domestic Violence? |journal=Partner Abuse |date=2011 |volume=2 |doi=10.1891/1946-6560.2.1.76}}</ref> 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> The model is biased because it neglects women's violence, violence within same-sex relationships, bidirectional abuse, 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><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bates |first1=Elizabeth |title=Current Controversies within Intimate Partner Violence: Overlooking Bidirectional Violence |journal=Journal of Family Violence |date=2016 |volume=31 |issue=8 |pages=937–940|doi=10.1007/s10896-016-9862-7 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rizza |first1=Johnna |title=Beyond Duluth: A Broad Spectrum of Treatmentfor a Broad Spectrum Domestic Violence |journal=Montana Law Review |volume=70 |issue=1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=FAQs about the Wheels |url=https://www.theduluthmodel.org/wheels/faqs-about-the-wheels/ |access-date=October 8, 2024 |website=The Duluth Model|date=15 March 2017 }}</ref>

Some academics argue it is a polarized model.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Donald |first1=Dutton |title=The Duluth model: A data-impervious paradigm and a failed strategy |journal=Aggression and Violent Behavior |date=2007 |volume=12 |issue=6 |pages=658–667 |doi=10.1016/j.avb.2007.03.002}}</ref>

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 response to female victims of Intimate Partner Violence that has three primary goals:

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The Duluth Model Coordinated Community Response has received multiple awards for its grassroots efforts to end intimate partner violence,<ref>{{Cite web |title=History and Recognition |url=https://www.theduluthmodel.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DAIP-History-and-Recognition-2017.pdf}}</ref> including the [[World Future Council]]'s Future Policy Award in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Future Council |date=14 October 2014 |url=https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/future-policy-award-2014/}}</ref> It has been criticized by mental health professionals who focus on individual behaviour and reject a social model of battering. Edward Gondolf critiques the narrow forms of evidence used to evaluate interventions, arguing that the biomedical research model is inappropriate for evaluating the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gondolf |first=E |title=The future of batterer programs: reassessing evidence based practice |publisher=North Eastern University Press |year=2012 |___location=Boston, MA}}</ref>

Some academics argue it is a polarized model.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Donald |first1=Dutton |title=The Duluth model: A data-impervious paradigm and a failed strategy |journal=Aggression and Violent Behavior |date=2007 |volume=12 |issue=6 |pages=658–667 |doi=10.1016/j.avb.2007.03.002}}</ref> They claim the model is biased because it neglects women's violence, violence within same-sex relationships, bidirectional abuse, 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><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bates |first1=Elizabeth |title=Current Controversies within Intimate Partner Violence: Overlooking Bidirectional Violence |journal=Journal of Family Violence |date=2016 |volume=31 |issue=8 |pages=937–940|doi=10.1007/s10896-016-9862-7 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rizza |first1=Johnna |title=Beyond Duluth: A Broad Spectrum of Treatmentfor a Broad Spectrum Domestic Violence |journal=Montana Law Review |volume=70 |issue=1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=FAQs about the Wheels |url=https://www.theduluthmodel.org/wheels/faqs-about-the-wheels/ |access-date=October 8, 2024 |website=The Duluth Model|date=15 March 2017 }}</ref>

==Origin and theory==