It is estimated that nearly 8.7 million women worldwide are abused each year by a former or current intimate partner (Day, Chung, O'Leary, & Carson, 2009). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, intimate partner violence (IPV) is defined as psychological, sexual, or physical harm by a current or former spouse or partner; this can include threats, coercion and harassment (Black et al., 2011). It is estimated that 39 million women in the United States, or approximately one in four, have been seriously physically injured by an intimate partner (Black et al., 2011). Domestic violence is important in the field of victim studies because it involves someone in a relationship being physically, emotionally, or sexually abused, therefore someone in the relationship is a victim and needs help getting out or resolve the situation. This is an epidemic that needs to be addressed. “The need for effective offender treatment programs is imperative to the overall well-being of victims of IPV and the community as a whole” (Herman, Rotunda, Williamson, & Vodanovich, 2014, p. 2). The Duluth Model is a program that reduces men's violence against their intimate partners. The purpose of this article is to determine whether the Duluth model effectively does what it is supposed to do. The Duluth Model is a feminist, cognitive-behavioral approach to educating men on how to lead nonviolent lives and relationships (Gondolf, 2007). ); Ellen Pence and Michael Paymar are the main contributors (Mills, 2008). The Duluth model includes the power and control wheel, video thumbnails, control logs, and the equality wheel. Each of them will be discussed in more detail later in the article. In Duluth, Minnesota, after a brutal domestic homicide...... middle of article...... probation or a control group, which included only probation. The experimental and control groups had a recidivism rate of 24% one year after probation, and the offenders' beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors did not appear to change (Feder & Dugan, 2002). The results of this experiment indicated that there were no significant differences between men participating in the Duluth Model and offenders who had just completed probation. One problem in the experiment was that only 29% of the men assigned to the intervention programs actually participated. Researchers therefore separated the results of offenders who participated from those who did not participate in the entire program (Feder & Dugan, 2002). ). These results indicate that men willing to participate were less likely to reoffend than men who were unwilling to participate in the program (Feder and Dugan, 2002).