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7 UCLA Women's L.J. 183 (1996-1997)
Intuition and Insight: A New Job Description for the Battered Woman's Prosecutor and Other More Modest Proposals

handle is hein.journals/uclawo7 and id is 193 raw text is: INTUITION AND INSIGHT: A NEW JOB DESCRIPTION FOR THE BATTERED WOMAN'S PROSECUTOR AND OTHER MORE MODEST PROPOSALS Linda G. Mills* The relation between two persons, which was, so to speak, co- natural to the feminine, becomes a process that has to be re- conquered. Woman has to seek out the values of exchange and communication, as does man, but for different reasons. He has to overcome the priority he gives to the accumulation, possession, or at best the exchange of objects, while she must avoid the risks of hierarchy and submission, of fusion between persons, of losing her identity in the impersonality of one.1 I. INTRODUCTION Many battered women's lawyers and advocates believe that the most effective method for eradicating domestic violence is to arrest, prosecute, and jail perpetrators of intimate abuse, regard- less of a battered woman's2 preference to avoid criminal inter- vention.3 While this response may be appropriate for a small, or * Assistant Professor of Social Welfare and Law, UCLA School of Public Pol- icy and Social Research. Controversy cultivates friendship. Donna Wills welcomed my students into the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office and inspired a model program. Christine Littleton paved the way for a more radical approach. Michelle Ahnn and the dedicated editors of the UCLA Women's Law Journal richly contributed to my articulation. And finally, my friendship with Peter Goodrich al- ways enlivens these polemics. 1. LUCE IRIGARAY, I LOVE TO YOU: SKETCH FOR A FELICITY WITHIN His- TORY 76 (Alison Martin trans., Routledge 1996). 2. 1 use the terms victim, survivor, and battered woman conveniently and interchangeably. No word adequately represents any woman's personal experi- ence of intimate abuse. I therefore apologize for the essentializing quality of each of the terms, none of which are offered as generalizations. 3. See generally Lisa A. Frisch, Research that Succeeds, Policies that Fail, 83 J. CRiM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 209 (1992); Cheryl Hanna, No Right to Choose: Mandated

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