The aim of this study was to understand the language (by this, we mean terminology) used by domestic abuse intervention programmes. Specifically, how is the user of the programme referred to and how the language used characterises them within the context of the programme. The review was taken in support of the Drive Systems Change Evaluation and the ‘listening and sharing’ findings webinar held in April 2023. Using the Office of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s mapped publicly-available data on perpetrator programmes , the content analysis was carried out between January – March 2023 by Dr Olumide Adisa and Lindsey Redgwell at the University of Suffolk.