Munich support model against domestic violence

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The Munich Support Model Against Domestic Violence ( MUM for short ) is a cooperation project between the Bavarian Police and independent charities that offers advice and help to victims of domestic violence and has existed since July 1, 2004. It was created on the background of the Protection against Violence Act of 2002. The most important basis is a common advisory standard.

Structure and public perception

As part of the Munich Support Model Against Domestic Violence (MUM), the Commissariat for Behavior-Oriented Prevention and Victim Protection of the Munich Police Headquarters work together with six city-funded Munich specialist advice centers (see cooperation partners). The project is based on a consulting standard agreed by the participating institutions. From a police point of view, it aims at comparatively simple cases such as bodily harm and insult.

The project was initially set up as a one-year model project. As soon as and when the police pass on the data, the person concerned will be called within three working days and informed of their rights under the Violence Protection Act. She also experiences a need-based referral, if necessary. The proactive approach also increasingly reaches migrant women who would otherwise have no access to the appropriate support facilities. Philip Morris GmbH supported the project as part of their “For a home without violence” initiative and made it possible to continue after 2006.

Counseling can be offered to all victims of domestic violence in the city of Munich and the Munich district . The police informs the counseling centers involved in cases of domestic violence if the victims consent to their personal data being passed on. They proactively get in touch with those affected and offer comprehensive advice on the legal situation as well as practical help.

At the 17th German Prevention Day, the project was named as an interdisciplinary recognized institution and honored with a lecture. According to this, more than 1,400 victims of domestic violence were counseled in 2011. In 2013, the Munich police listed around 3,500 crimes per year in which around 1,600 women sought advice, a good half from the police themselves. 70 percent of those seeking help at the women's emergency number succeed in reorientation. In view of a murder case in 2013, in which the public prosecutor had reported that the ex-husband had been threatened with Facebook for too long, requests were made to deal with domestic violence cases separately and to tighten the penalties for violations of non-contact bans.

It was presented as a best practice example at the “Bavaria against domestic violence” conference in 2007 . To mark the tenth anniversary of the cooperation project, a symposium was held in Munich in 2014 under the patronage of Police President Hubertus Andrä and with the support of the City of Munich . In the specialist literature, MUM is referred to throughout Germany as a leader together with the Berlin intervention project against male violence (BiG e.V.). Compared to comparable Austrian projects, MUM gave precautionary effects a higher priority.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wiebke Steffen : Laws determine the tactics: From the reaction to family disputes to the implementation of the Protection against Violence Act. Changes in dealing with police violence - at the same time an example of the practical relevance of criminological research. In: Helmut Kury , Joachim Obergfell-Fuchs (ed.): Violence in the family: for and against the expulsion. Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004, ISBN 3-7841-1565-9 , p. 30
  2. ↑ a b c PP Munich: Munich support model against domestic violence - MUM. Police Bavaria, October 4, 2012, accessed on February 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Maier 2008, p. 73. quotes the annual report of the Frauennotruf Munich annual report 2005: pages 7–8. Maier himself speaks out in favor of the approach and sums it up on page 77, referring to the Munich women's emergency call: The positive conception of the work despite all the difficulties and stresses caused by the consequences of the crime is essential.
  4. ↑ Munich Support Model Against Domestic Violence (MUM). (No longer available online.) SKF Munich, archived from the original on February 6, 2016 ; accessed on December 29, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skf-muenchen.de
  5. ↑ Tom Soyer, Susi Wimmer: Why it is so difficult to protect victims. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 16, 2013, accessed on December 29, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Arno Helfrich: MUM - Munich support model against domestic violence. German Prevention Day, accessed on February 6, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Erich Marks , Wiebke Steffen: Safe living in town and country: Selected contributions from the 17th German Prevention Day (April 16 and 17, 2012 in Munich) . BoD, 2013, ISBN 978-3-942865-15-9 .
  8. ↑ a b Wife stabbed to death - Chronicle of an announced murder . In: sueddeutsche.de November 24, 2013 . ISSN  0174-4917 ( online [accessed February 6, 2016]).
  9. ^ Symposium "Bavaria against domestic violence". (No longer available online.) Frauen Union, January 11, 2007, formerly in the original ; accessed on December 29, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fu-bayern.de  
  10. ↑ Symposium 10 years of MUM. (PDF) Autonomous women's shelters, accessed on December 29, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Manuela Brandstetter: Violence in close social areas: The logic of prevention in rural social areas . Springer Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16794-7 , pp. 121 .
  12. ↑ Advice for those affected by intimate partner violence. Munich Information Center for Men, accessed February 15, 2016 .