Preventive intervention and treatment programmes for violenting perpetrators of domestic violence are a duty of peace-aimed societies

The Istanbul Convention has been applicable federal law in Germany since 2018. Its implementation is a mandatory task for all levels, i.e. federal, state and local.
Perpetrator work, regulated in Art. 16 IC, is at the same time an indispensable part of intervention in the sustainable fight against gender-based and domestic violence and at the same time part of its prevention, i.e. prevention in (subsequent) relationships of the identified, but also of the voluntarily surrendering perpetrator. In terms of funding, this realization has still not taken hold. It is only a matter of time when Germany will be held accountable for this. We should quickly start implementing the nationwide proactive approach of offender work and budget its financing not only by municipalities, but also in the state and federal budgets of the social, interior and justice ministries.