Zwei neue Bücher zur häuslichen Gewalt (USA)

Arne Hoffmann, Monday, 25.10.2004, 00:16 (vor 7774 Tagen)

Gerade beim Surfen bei Amazon.com entdeckt. Offenbar ist uns die Diskussion in den USA wirklich einen Schritt voraus (aber wir kommen auch dorthin):

Linda Mills:
Insult to Injury: Rethinking our Responses to Intimate Abuse
Princeton University Press, August 2003

Book Description
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. Looking honestly at uncomfortable facts, Linda Mills makes the case for a complete overhaul and presents a promising alternative.
The evidence turns up some surprising facts about the complexities of intimate abuse, facts that run against mainstream assumptions: The current system robs battered women of what power they do hold. Perhaps as many as half of women in abusive relationships stay in them for strong cultural, economic, religious, or emotional reasons. Jailing their partners often makes their situations worse. Women are at least as physically violent and emotionally aggressive as are men toward women, and women's aggression is often central to the dynamic of intimate abuse.
Informed by compelling evidence, personal experience, and what abused women themselves say about their needs, Mills proposes no less than a fundamentally new system. Addressing the real dynamics of intimate abuse and incorporating proven methods of restorative justice, Mills's approach focuses on healing and transformation rather than shame or punishment. Already the subject of heated controversy, Insult to Injury offers a desperately needed and powerful means for using what we know to reduce violence in our homes.

“Concludes that the conventional feminist paradigm of domestic violence as a form of patriarchal oppression is woefully inadequate.”
Cathy Young, Boston Globe

"What a breath of fresh air. [This book] takes on the entrenched and very powerful. Superb stuff. . . . Exhilarating."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1593301227/ref=pd_sbs_b_2/103-0439714-970...

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Thomas B. James:
Domestic Violence: The 12 Things You Aren't Supposed to Know
Aventine Press, November 2003

Is domestic violence strictly a male phenomenon? Are all women who abuse their partners acting in self-defense? Is domestic violence about male privilege, power and control? In this book, the author conducts a meticulous and thorough examination of the research on domestic violence, coming to the unsettling conclusion that virtually everything we think we know about domestic abuse is wrong. Exposing evidence of a deliberate governmental campaign to distort the truth and proliferate lies, Mr. James explains why honesty and candor are our only real hope for bringing an end to this enormous social problem.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1593301227/ref=pd_sbs_b_2/103-0439714-970...