The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

by Kerry Daynes

Almost every statement I read said the same thing: I told her to get away, I said she should leave him. No one mentioned telling him to go away, to stop beating her up.

that the phrase ‘a civil matter’ is the stalking victim’s equivalent of ‘just a domestic’ to a battered spouse.

At each and every point on the matrix – criminals and victims, rich and poor, men and women, black and white – there were glaring inequalities and failures wherever you looked. Systemic failures at every level, from the moment a crime is or isn’t reported to the solutions on offer.