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Book Review on “Domestic Violence: The 12 Things You Aren’t Supposed to Know” Written By: Thomas James
T.B. James has written a fatiguing-hitting and incisive book focusing adhering current myths about domestic violence in the United States that turns the habitual approach on its ear (Domestic Violence: The 12 Things You Aren’t Supposed to Know, 2003). A practicing lawyer in Minnesota and founder/director of Better Resolutions Mediation Service, James’s short, quotable book focuses on empirical studies and one extensive review of the literature to cause to be a powerful argument that women are in the manner that violent as men, while our legitimate system is biased against men and refuses to clinch females accountable when they are intense (James, 2003).
Based on this information, James’ first twelve chapters are weak essays, each addressing one of the dozen things cited in his title. In the 13th and conclusive chapter, he marshals his chilling conclusions from the careful search literature: men are victimized more repeatedly than women and violence against them through females is just as severe as violence against women. Women are the aboriginal abusers of children and most of their young victims are male animal. Criminal statistics show, in spite of a rise chorus of voices denouncing violence close up to women, that violence against males across at least the past twenty years has been swelling, while conversely, violence against women has been decreasing. The similar statistics reveal that violence perpetrated through females, in general, has been steady the rise (James, 2003).
In his greatest part startling chapters, James makes a forceful yet controversial assertion that domestic violence to match men, rather than racial crimes, are the greatest number under-reported crimes, citing factors that include masculine cultural conditioning about not admitting they are victims and men’s actual fears about seeking justice in a authorized system that favors women. James demonstrates systemic prejudice disposition by some lawyers, police and judges...
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