Abused Men The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence by Philip W. Cook Reviews Order on-line When She Was Bad Violent Women & the Myth of Innocence Patricia Pearson Order on-line Ceasefire: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality by Cathy Young Order on-line

New York Times Nov. 23, 1999 Spouse Abuse Crackdown, Surprisingly, Nets Many Women by Carey Goldberg Defenders of battered women long struggled to persuade authorities to crack down on brutal men who reigned by the fist at home. But those crackdowns have produced an unexpected consequence: in some places, one-quarter or more of arrests for domestic assault are not of men but of women. more ... New York Times Op-Ed response by Cathy Young Feminists Play the Victim Game The New York Times November 26, 1999 An increasing number of women are being arrested for domestic assaults, and the response to this news shows just how pervasive sexist attitudes still are in our culture. But this time the sexism is coming from feminists and their allies, who insist that most women arrested must have acted in self-defense. This sentimental insistence on female innocence does no service to women, who should be treated as human beings with a capacity for aggression and held equally accountable for their actions. more ... Associated Press story Domestic Case Arrests of Women Rise by James O. Clifford SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- There was a time when police officers handled a domestic violence call by telling angry men to take a walk and cool off. They still do, but the walk is straight to jail. And increasingly, it's the woman who takes the hike. Police in at least 24 states now receive training in how to decide who is the "primary aggressor," a term that doesn't necessarily mean the person who struck the first blow or even caused the most damage, according to the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. more ...

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