Insult to injury : rethinking our responses to intimate abuse / Linda G. Mills.

By:

Mills, Linda G

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400825684
1400825687
0691127727
9780691127729

Other title:

Rethinking our responses to intimate abuse

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Insult to injury.DDC classification:

362.82/92 22

LOC classification:

HV6626 .M55 2003eb

Other classification:

71.65

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Contents:

Giving Thanks -- Prologue -- PART I: Rethinking Our Responses to Intimate Abuse -- One: The Ground Zero of Intimate Abuse -- Two: Mandatory Policies as Crime Reduction Strategies: Do They Work? -- Three: Power over Women in Abusive Relationships -- Four: Are Women as Aggressive as Men? -- PART II: Fixing the Failures -- Five: The Dynamic of Intimate Abuse -- Six: Changing the System -- Seven: Learning to Listen to Narratives of Intimate Abuse -- Eight: A Better Way.

Summary: Locking up men who beat their partners sounds like a tremendous improvement over the days when men could hit women with impunity and women fearing for their lives could expect no help from authorities. But does our system of requiring the arrest, prosecution, and incarceration of abusers lessen domestic violence or help battered women? In this already controversial but vitally important book, we learn that the criminal justice system may actually be making the problem of domestic violence worse.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-169) and index.

Locking up men who beat their partners sounds like a tremendous improvement over the days when men could hit women with impunity and women fearing for their lives could expect no help from authorities. But does our system of requiring the arrest, prosecution, and incarceration of abusers lessen domestic violence or help battered women? In this already controversial but vitally important book, we learn that the criminal justice system may actually be making the problem of domestic violence worse.

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