PositiveThe New York Times Book Review...[a] powerful new book ... Snyder exposes this hidden crisis by combining her own careful analysis with deeply upsetting and thoughtfully told accounts of victims ... Much could be done if law enforcement were more responsive to the problem. According to Snyder, the communities that have made the biggest gains in dealing with the issue have been able to meld the functions of law enforcement and domestic violence crisis centers. Still the current culture of law enforcement is deeply entrenched and I wonder whether Snyder’s hope for change is overly optimistic ... Snyder makes an especially strong case for more coordination among both agencies and jurisdictions ... Less convincing is her call for perpetrators to get more jail time, to give the victims more time to get their own lives in order. I wondered what was to stop a perpetrator from being more angry (and potentially abusive) when he was released post-trial ... To her credit, Snyder takes seriously the underlying causes of violence, interviewing perpetrators and noting that many have often been victims themselves.
