Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation. By Mindie Lazarus-Black. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. xii+244. $22.00 paper.

Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation explores the impact of Trinidad and Tobago's 1991 Domestic Violence Act (p. 23), the first legislation in the English-speaking Caribbean giving domestic violence victims the right to petition courts for orders of protection against their abusers. The subject matter, if seemingly esoteric, is vital. Relatively little sociolegal research has studied the globalization of domestic violence law, one of the most striking legal phenomena of recent ...

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