Debates over crime often omit domestic violence. Is that because most of the victims are women?

Mia Brett writes a brief legal history of intimate partner violence.

Tracey Thurman, Hartford, 1985. Courtesy of the Courant.

Last week, I wrote about the causal connection between domestic violence and mass shootings, and the urgent need to take domestic violence seriously. While this is true and while domestic violence remains relevant in 60 percent of mass shootings, we should be concerned with domestic violence outsid…