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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nBloomsbury, 2019. 320p. $25.20, hardcover. Also available as e-book or e-audiobook. Find it at a local library through worldcat.org<\/a>. If purchased through bookshop.org<\/a>, sales support independent bookstores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rachel Louise Snyder had traveled internationally as journalist, noting domestic violence as incidental to several stories she had written in Afghanistan, Niger, Honduras, and elsewhere, never quite connecting it as part of the same global epidemic as domestic violence in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She had believed a number of prevalent falsehoods about domestic violence. Among them: if it\u2019s serious, there will be visible injuries; if it\u2019s bad enough, victims will leave; restraining orders and shelters are adequate responses; and domestic violence is a private matter that only affects the people in a few unlucky households. Her research\u2014interviews of victims and abusers, as well as statistical research\u2014both counters those myths and reveals that domestic violence is profoundly connected to other societal problems, including homelessness and mass shootings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Section One interrogates why domestic violence victims stay in abusive relationships. Section Two asks whether abusers can learn to be nonviolent. Section Three examines advocates and initiatives working to interrupt domestic violence. Along with the book\u2019s sociological and journalistic underpinnings, legal topics both broad and specific are mentioned\u2014criminal domestic violence courts, sentencing guidelines, the Violence Against Women Act, the O.J. Simpson trial, Crawford v. Washington<\/em>, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n