In trying to understand how the police became the arbiters of our relationships, I look at the historic evolution from the creation of the Feminist Anti-Violence movement in the 1960s to contemporary state control of the domestic realm.
this sounds really interesting already -- I guess it never occurred to me that part of the issue is a disconnect between invoking the police in a time/moment of conflict that they almost invariably (well, that's probably overstating it, but still) respond to in a paradigm of abuse/punishment
