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Book Review: Insult to Injury: Rethinking Our Responses to Intimate Abuse

Going where few have gone before, and many dare not go in today’s current political environment, Linda Mills bravely challenges the current ideology surrounding domestic violence and its etiology, dynamics, and the manner in which the criminal justice system currently addresses this social problem. Like a modern day Columbus or Galileo, Mills guides the reader through the hazy and often murky political waters that have been commandeered by a feminist agenda that has consequently and often incorrectly shaped society’s views on, and more important its response to, domestic violence programs and policy. The author directly attacks and challenges many of the mainstream feminists’ commonly held (mis)perceptions that have become accepted dogma when developing domestic violence policies for managing offenders, shaping how society views victims, and how the system erroneously seeks to help victims by removing them from the arrest and court disposition decisions. Mills cogently argues that interpersonal violence is intergenerational and often varies by race and religious preference, a fact that is ignored by policy makers who persist in defining, and treating, all domestic violence cases and offenders as if they are identical. Mills sharply criticizes the current belief that all domestic violence victims suffer from trauma or learned helplessness and instead advocates for empowering these victims: an empowerment that includes restoring their voices and discretion over their respective cases versus the feminist practice that seeks to act in the best interest of the victims by telling them what is in their own best interest, because their abuse has rendered them incapable of rational thought. The author also reminds the readers what they intuitively know, that all relationships are fluid and dynamic, and the interactions within these relationships operate on a two-way street. Consequently, she espouses the view that victims are not always manipulated or controlled but can and do exert