Next Time, She'll Be Dead: Battering & How to Stop It [Hardcover]

Ann Jones (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1994 | ISBN-10: 0807067709 | ISBN-13: 978-0807067703

Uses cases studies to show how judges (refusing to issue restraining orders), police (refusing to interfere in "lovers' quarrels"), journalists (referring to "crimes of passion"), and even many feminists still hold women responsible for appeasing men and absorbing their violence.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Significant and depressing, this study by the author of Women Who Kill brings home as few others have the number of women who are battered and the virtually insuperable obstacles they face trying to combat abuse. We learn that more than a million American women are battered each year, most by husbands or boyfriends, who are also likely to hit children in the home as well. The police, according to Jones, are unsympathetic to battered women, whom they regard as partly, if not entirely, responsible for the attacks they suffer. In the most shocking sections of the book, Jones asserts that there is an entrenched misogyny in the legal system; she cites the sentence of a man who shot his wife in the head (where the bullet is still lodged) to three months while, later, she was sentenced to life because, after being threatened repeatedly, she hired a man to kill her husband. As Jones so succinctly puts it, "battered women are battered once again by the law." She devotes a chapter to suggested remedies. First serial to Mirabella and Glamour.
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From Library Journal

An impassioned, informed, and immensely readable critique of domestic violence and society's dangerously ineffectual response by the author of Women Who Kill.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Beacon Pr (January 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807067709
• ISBN-13: 978-0807067703
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,242,052 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read this Book!, February 24, 2000

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Janeen K. Grohsmeyer (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Next Time She'll Be Dead: Battering and How to Stop It (Paperback)

If you watched the Simpson trial and wondered, "Why didn't Nicole just leave?"; if you ever thought that women who stayed in abusive relationships must somehow ... well, like it, or deserve it, or be weird; if you're a woman who ever thought "It could never happen to _me_", then you should read this book.

And if you've never wondered or thought about battering at all, or if you're a man, or if you're a woman, then you should read this book.

An eye-opening, sickening, and incredibly revealing look at battered women and abusive men and society's response to them both.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Learning Tool, January 27, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Next Time, She'll Be Dead: Battering and How to Stop It (Paperback)

Battering and how to stop it is an excellent source for anyone who desires to better understand the psychological trauma of the victim and the difficult situations that arise in trying to leave. The reader will understand the victim more thoroughly in some critically analyzed situations. Including The Steinberg Murder Case. This book is well-researched and thoroughly explained. Some sources: The American Journal of Psychiatry, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, New York Times, Washington Post, National Center on Women and Family Law, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars enraging on all aspects but excellent, recommend to all, June 25, 2000

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Timothy Hugh Gibson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Next Time, She'll Be Dead: Battering and How to Stop It (Paperback)

This book is an excellent view of the domestic violence disease that plagues this country. As a police officer I respectfully do not share all of her views but she has brought to light many of the problems associated with domestic abuse. Her references are impecable yet not all officers are out to ignore the plight. Some of her views are not only invalid(maybe they should be valid)in some states but she even recommends law enforcement to violate the constitution and rules of civil and criminal procedure. I was given this book by a fellow officer with the for warning " you will love this book but it will get you mad." It definitely did that. I feel that it is great reading and should be read by all in society especially those in law enforcement but I wish to debate a few issues with Ms. Jones. We all seek an end to violence and this book is one view as to how we may start going about it NOW. Buy it, read it, recommend it!