I sincerely believe that we need to open centres for violent men. I'm not talking about substance abuse treatment centres. I'm talking about real therapy centres. Our organization, La Maison des Guerrières, works with men who have violent and impulsive behaviours. As Ms. Monastesse said, programs or workshops provided by Paix and other such organizations do not constitute real therapy. It's a group of guys sitting down having a good time for an hour. What I do when I work with men is bring them face to face with their problems. They are intensive sessions.
I believe these men need the support of specialists. We have therapy programs in which specialists help men by giving them the tools they need to deal with substance abuse issues. Similarly, we need homes for violent men. As soon as police are called in to respond to a situation involving a violent man, he should be sent to a centre where experts could assess the level of danger he poses. If he's found to be very dangerous, for instance, the experts could decide that the case had to be referred back to the court and that the man had to be kept under surveillance.
The approach has to be intensive. These men don't have the right tools. The only tool they have is anger. They need to learn other tools, so they can cope with jealousy and other emotions properly, so they can understand why they react the way they do. I can speak to the results we've seen with the men we have worked with. I repeat, however, that they can't be men with narcissistic perversion. I am talking about men who are impulsive. Some of these men were sexually assaulted. Some experienced violence first-hand, having been abused by their parents or watched their mother be beaten. Violence is the only thing they know, so they behave violently in their own intimate relationships. It is society's job to educate them.
Violence prevention needs to happen in schools as well. There isn't—