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I tried the VR headset that puts domestic abusers in victims’ shoes
Technology helps to rehabilitate offenders by allowing them to experience domestic violence first hand, teaching them the empathy they often lack
The harrowing dialogue is part of a virtual reality program designed to tackle violence in the home by allowing perpetrators to experience their crime from the point of view of their victim. Nicolas Barnes, the psychologist who designed the VRespectMe program, said the purpose was to challenge the attitudes of domestic abusers by allowing them to experience their behaviour from the point of view of the victim. Domestic violence perpetrators typically have little emotional understanding of the impact of their actions, explained Barnes, who is deputy director of the youth justice estate in Catalonia.
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