Power, Control and Domestic Abuse, with Jess Hill and Ros Urwin

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared ------ Every week in England and Wales, two women are killed by a current or former partner. And still we ask the question: 'Why didn't she leave?' According to author award winning Jess Hill, we should be asking 'Why did he do it?' In this episode Hill speaks to Rosamund Urwin about the perpetrators of abuse and the systems that enable them. Her radical reframing of domestic abuse takes us beyond the home and explores some innovative solutions such as women only police stations in Latin America. To find out more about her new book, click here: https://bit.ly/3lD4H1D -------------------------- Intelligence Squared+. The world's best speakers. Your questions. £4.99 per month. Intelligence Squared+ will bring you live, interactive events every week on our new online platform. Just like at our real-life events, you’ll be able to put your questions to our speakers, vote in live polls and interact with other members of the audience. Your subscription will give you access to multiple events featuring the world’s top thinkers and opinion formers, including Thomas Piketty, Margaret Atwood, Clive Woodward, Thomas Friedman, Meera Syal and Paloma Faith. For a full list of Intelligence Squared+ events and to subscribe, click here: https://bit.ly/2yfYIfm Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello podcast listeners I'm Connor and welcome to this week's episode of Intelligence
0:03.6	Squared day we're joined by the award-winning author and investigative journalist Jess
0:07.5	Hill to speak about her new book see what you made me do power control and
0:11.7	domestic abuse she spoke to Rosamond Erwin all about our common
0:15.4	misconceptions about domestic abuse and also some innovative solutions from around the world
0:20.0	to tackle the crisis of gender-based violence and abuse.
0:23.2	It's a really interesting conversation and it challenges us to see domestic abuse through a different
0:27.2	lens. We hope you enjoy it.
0:29.5	Hello, I'm Rosamander winner journalists at the Sunday Times.
0:33.3	Hi Jess, how are you today?
0:34.8	Hi, Ros, I'm great.
0:36.0	How are you?
0:36.7	I'm fine, thanks.
0:37.7	It's a very serious topic for today,
0:39.6	but actually what I like so much about your book
0:42.3	is you also do offer a bit of hope within there you know you start at quite a hopeful point I want to ask first of all we treat domestic violence often as though it's a problem that is inevitable
0:57.1	after spending all this time investigating it how do you feel about that?
1:02.8	I think that given the way that we relate, you know, and the way that we are intimate with
1:09.0	each other and all of the vulnerabilities and you know, it's sort of extreme emotions that can come with that that it's going to be very
1:17.2	difficult to just extinguish domestic abuse altogether but I don't think that it's inevitable that we should have it at
1:25.6	anywhere near the levels that we have it now and nor is it inevitable that it
1:29.8	should continue to go as unchecked as it is now. And you know that's why we talk about sort of in the book
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