Sandra Rudd, president of Chester Women's Aid, believes preventative work with perpetrators is a "complete waste of time" and has not been proven to work.
Her work showed perpetrators came from all ethnic groups, as do their victims, who are as young as 11 and are largely but not exclusively girls.
"We are very pleased with this conviction, which demonstrates that when organisations work together perpetrators will be brought to justice".
Through director Joshua Oppenheimer's work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered and the identity of the men who killed him.
In plain black script on white A5, it began: "The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] are working against perpetrators of terrorist operations... we are trying our best not to attack or cause any injuries to civilians... .. Our friend took us to his roof and pointed out all the possible targets for Israeli strikes.
We wanted to share our experience with a group of mentally retarded patients major supported on our network in the west of Paris specializes in working with perpetrators of sexual violence.
"I cannot guarantee we won't have a tragedy during the World Cup but we are working with victims, targeting perpetrators, working with partners to share information more effectively and try to better protect victims".
Though she was convinced the event was linked to her work, the real perpetrators have never been found.
But well as working to protect those harmed by the riots, social workers are also in a good position to work with the perpetrators.
The Forgiveness Project has done some remarkable work, bringing together perpetrators and victims from just about every serious war zone and area of conflict in the world, including Northern Ireland, South Africa and Israel.
