Snyder’s thoroughly reported book covers what the World Health Organization has called “a global health problem of epidemic proportions.” In America alone, more than half of all murdered women are killed by a current or former partner; domestic violence cuts across lines of class, religion and race. Snyder debunks pervasive myths (restraining orders are the answer, abusers never change) and writes movingly about the lives (and deaths) of people on both sides of the equation. She doesn’t give easy answers but presents a wealth of information that is its own form of hope.
Nonfiction | Bloomsbury Publishing. $28. | Read the review | Listen: Rachel Louise Murder, never solved, but Prime Suspect still alive podcast and article by Washington Post12/4/2018
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click here for Washington Post article on high school girl's rape and the pursuit of justice Twelve years ago, Amber Wyatt reported her rape. Few believed her. Her hometown turned against her. The authorities failed her. “The examination that I did was consistent with what [Wyatt] said. That girl was raped.”
Nurse Della Schiavo, who conducted Wyatt's sexual assault exam at Arlington Memorial Hospital Click here to look at video from The Atlantic on Serial killer data analysis click here for article describing how many serial killers may go undetected in US
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