If you can choose to be bad, you can choose to be good’, course leader Mark says (Dominic Lipinski/PA)] “Domestic abuse is a choice,” Mark*, the course leader tells them, as the two-hour session begins.
This week’s session of the Spotlight Programme — one of several across the country aimed at stopping people inflicting violence and abuse on their partners — is looking at the repercussions domestic abuse has on children.
Inside the scheme trying to stop violent men abusing their partners Domestic abuse is a choice, the course leader says.
Mark, who has worked with dozens of male prisoners who have killed their partners and counselled many perpetrators in the wider community, is here to encourage the men to reflect on the consequences of their actions.
Gathered around a wooden table in an unremarkable local council room in east London, ten men are sat side by side.
