ABSTRACT
Mark Cowling (2006) questions these notions and asks whether the imprisonment of serial killers and rapists simply makes things worse and queries whether it would be better for us all if the state did not interfere in domestic violence. He moreover asks whether it is an appropriate role for ‘progressive’ criminologists to be supporting ‘resistances’ by men who have been engaged in battering against the ‘ubiquitous’ power of the police and courts and propose that such expansive claims need to be revealed and argued rather than merely asserted.
