The Duluth Model is a method for coordinating community responses to domestic violence through an inter-agency approach that combines justice and human service interventions with the primary goal of protecting victims from ongoing abuse.

Based on the feminist theory that patriarchal ideology causes domestic violence, the program helps men to confront their attitudes about control and teaches them other strategies for dealing with their partners. 

There have been a number of evaluations, but most are limited by methodological flaws. Two (the Broward and Brooklyn experiments) suggest that it has had no demonstrable effect on offenders’ attitudes, beliefs, or behavior relating to battering. A recent meta-analysis which pooled the results from 22 studies (Babcock et al. 2004) found that Duluth performed marginally better than standard court intervention but that there was high drop-out. 

The model forms the basis for the Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs founded in 1980 by Minnesota Program Development, Inc.