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Author : Angela Browne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781439118658
A compassionate look at 42 battered women who felt "locked in with danger and so desperate that they killed a man they loved"; scholarly and compelling.
Author : Elizabeth A. Sheehy
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780774826532
In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of "battered woman syndrome" was admissible in establishing self-defence for women accused of killing their abusive partners. This book looks at the trials of eleven battered women, ten of whom killed their partners, in the fifteen years since Lavallee. Drawing extensively on trial transcripts and a rich expanse of interdisciplinary sources, the author looks at the evidence produced at trial and at how self-defence was argued. By illuminating these cases, this book uncovers the practical and legal dilemmas faced by battered women on trial for murder.
Author : Lenore E. Walker
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015056504262
Walker's chilling follow-up to her now-classic groundbreaker, The BAttered Woman, is a dramatic study of women who murder their abusive partners in self-defense--and what happens to them afterward. "Provocative . . . the book makes its point".--New York Times Book Review.
Author : Charles Patrick Ewing
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015035332462
Author : Lenore E. Walker
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0826143237
In this latest edition of her groundbreaking book, Dr. Lenore Walker has provided a thorough update to her original findings in the field of domestic abuse. Each chapter has been expanded to include new research. The volume contains the latest on the impact of exposure to violence on children, marital rape, child abuse, personality characteristics of different types of batterers, new psychotherapy models for batterers and their victims, and more. Walker also speaks out on her involvement in the O.J. Simpson trial as a defense witness and how he does not fit the empirical data known for domestic violence. This volume should be required reading for all professionals in the field of domestic abuse. For Further Information, Please Click Here!
Author : Amy Lou Busch
Publisher : Nova Kroshka Books
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015043763435
The few studies that exist on battered women who have killed focus on what psychologists, attorneys, and academics have to say about their conduct. To date, there has been no study of how the women perceive themselves and their actions, and how they feel about the labels that have been applied to them. The voices of women who have killed their abusers must be brought into this debate. The life stories of these women can inform the theory used to describe them, illuminating disjunctions between the battered woman syndrome and their own explanations for their actions.
Author : Elizabeth M. Schneider
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300128932
Women’s rights advocates in the United States have long argued that violence against women denies women equality and citizenship, but it took a movement of feminist activists and lawyers, beginning in the late 1960s, to set about realizing this vision and transforming domestic violence from a private problem into a public harm. This important book examines the pathbreaking legal process that has brought the pervasiveness and severity of domestic violence to public attention and has led the United States Congress, the Supreme Court, and the United Nations to address the problem. Elizabeth Schneider has played a pioneering role in this process. From an insider’s perspective she explores how claims of rights for battered women have emerged from feminist activism, and she assesses the possibilities and limitations of feminist legal advocacy to improve battered women’s lives and transform law and culture. The book chronicles the struggle to incorporate feminist arguments into law, particularly in cases of battered women who kill their assailants and battered women who are mothers. With a broad perspective on feminist lawmaking as a vehicle of social change, Schneider examines subjects as wide-ranging as criminal prosecution of batterers, the civil rights remedy of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, the O. J. Simpson trials, and a class on battered women and the law that she taught at Harvard Law School. Feminist lawmaking on woman abuse, Schneider argues, should reaffirm the historic vision of violence and gender equality that originally animated activist and legal work.
Author : Brenda L. Russell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786460045
The use of the battered woman syndrome defense in the courts is controversial, particularly when women turn to homicide in response to a partner's abuse. Scholars worry that the syndrome has created a standard to which all battered women are compared. This book provides a comprehensive examination of the evolution of the syndrome, its effectiveness in court, and the contributions made by psychologists and legal scholars to aid our understanding of the use of battered woman syndrome evidence in trials of abused women who kill. Of particular interest is the influence of history, gender roles, and stereotypes in the evaluation of defendants who claim to suffer from the syndrome.
Author : Robbin S. Ogle,Susan Jacobs
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015055596509
This study argues that the battering relationship is properly understood as a long-term homicidal process. The authors posit a social interaction perspective for understanding the forces that work toward maintaining the battering relationship and escalating it to a homicidal end.
Author : Belinda Morrissey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Murder in mass media
ISBN : 0415260051
Based on case studies from the US, UK and Australia, this book looks at the ways in which female killers are constructed in the media, in law and in feminist discourse almost invariably as victims rather than actors in the crimes they commit.
Author : Hallie Ludsin,Lisa Vetten
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Abused women
ISBN : 1770090541
Extrait de la couverture : "Debunking the myths about domestic violence - in defence of battered women who kill : *why do men abuse?, *why don't abused women leave them?, *why do some women kill?, *and why they qualify for legal defence? The Justice for Women Campaign was initiated in 1998 by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. As its name suggests, the campaign seeks to promote the just and equitable treatments of battered women who have killed their abusive partners. The Campaign has three main goals : reforming legal defences to murder and sentencing guidelines ; establishing a review mechanism to allow for the early release of women who have killed abusive partners ; and providing legal and support services to women assisted by the Campaign."
Author : Belinda Morrissey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134510696
Based on case studies from the US, UK and Australia, this book looks at the ways in which female killers are constructed in the media, in law and in feminist discourse almost invariably as victims rather than actors in the crimes they commit.
Author : Sara Vincenzotti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3346238431
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Sociology - Law, Delinquency, Abnormal Behavior, University of Newcastle, course: LLB Law, language: English, abstract: This paper will focus on explaining why trying to categorize "Battered Woman Syndrome Cases" under one defense is not only simplistic, but naive and unjustified. The defenses available to battered women who kill should be specific to the circumstances of the case, as violence which occurs in an intimate and private sphere cannot be adequately understood unless it is analyzed in its specific context. There is a clear difference between women who kill their abusers as a result of their psychological state, and those who do so by exercising their lawful right to self-defense. For this reason, it will concentrate on the distinctions between battered women who suffer from BWS and kill their abusers in non-confrontational situations, and battered women who do not suffer from BWS and kill in confrontational situations.
Author : Cynthia K. Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015014605938
Examines over 300 cases in which women have attempted to defend themselves from violent partners.
Author : Evan Stark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780195384048
Drawing on cases, Stark identifies the problems with our current approach to domestic violence, outlines the components of coercive control, and then uses this alternate framework to analyse the cases of battered women charged with criminal offenses directed at their abusers.