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Self-Defense and Battered Women Who Kill: A New Framework » Read Now
by Susan Jacobs, Robbin S. Ogle. 213 pgs.

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Battering relationships often escalate to a point where the battered woman commits homicide. When such homicides occur, attention usually is focused on the final violent encounter; however, Ogle and Jacobs argue, while that act is the last homicidal encounter, it is not the only one. This important...
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Battering relationships often escalate to a point where the battered woman commits homicide. When such homicides occur, attention usually is focused on the final violent encounter; however, Ogle and Jacobs argue, while that act is the last homicidal encounter, it is not the only one. This important study argues that the battering relationship is properly understood as a long-term homicidal process that, if played out to the point that contrition dissipates, is very likely to result in the death of one of the parties. In that context, Ogle and Jacobs posit a social interaction perspective for understanding the situational, cultural, social, and structural forces that work toward maintaining the battering relationship and escalating it to a homicidal end. This book details this theory and explains how to apply it in a trial setting.
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Helping Battered Women: New Perspectives and Remedies (Chap. 9 "Battered Women, Homicide, and the Legal System") » Read Now
by Albert R. Roberts. 254 pgs.

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Recent estimates indicate that as many as 8.7 million women are beaten in their homes each year. This is an alarming national statistic, but there is hope. This book examines both social work and criminal justice professional's methods of intervention on behalf of battered women escaping from...
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Recent estimates indicate that as many as 8.7 million women are beaten in their homes each year. This is an alarming national statistic, but there is hope. This book examines both social work and criminal justice professional's methods of intervention on behalf of battered women escaping from violent relationships. Helping Battered Women fills a major gap in the literature on the subject. The author provides the reader with the most current, comprehensive, empirically-based, and realistic overview of policy and intervention methods of women escaping from violent relationships. This interdisciplinary volume integrates a rich diversity of perspectives by internationally recognized professors and scholars in the fields of social work, clinical psychology, and criminal justice. The authors of each of the individual chapters tackle one of the major social problems of our times--violence against women--in a systematic and sensitive manner. The authors provide a clear and cogent argument for advocacy and social change in battered women's shelters, police precincts, state legislatures, and the nation's criminal courts.
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When Women Kill: Questions of Agency and Subjectivity (Chap. 3 "Inconceivable Survivors: Battered Women who Kill") » Read Now
by Belinda Morrissey. 213 pgs.

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Why are we so reluctant to believe that women can mean to kill? 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...
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Why are we so reluctant to believe that women can mean to kill? 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. Morrissey argues that by denying the possibility of female agency in crimes of torture, rape and murder, feminist theorists are, with the best of intentions, actually denying women the full freedom to be human. Case studies cover among others the battered wife, Pamela Sainsbury, who garrotted her husband as he slept, the serial killer, Aileen Wournos, who killed seven middle-aged men in Florida between 1989 and 1990, Tracey Wiggington, the so-called "lesbian vampire killer", and Karla Homolka who helped her husband kill two teenage girls in St. Catherines Ontario in 1993.
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The Domestic Assault of Women: Psychological and Criminal Justice Perspectives (Chap. 7 "Traumatic Bonding") » Read Now
by Donald G. Dutton. 337 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

This book provides a comprehensive look at the causes and effects of wife assault and its relationship to criminal justice policy.
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From Fear to Rage: Black Rage as a Natural Progression from and Functional Equivalent of Battered Woman Syndrome, in William and Mary Law Review » Read Now
by Tosha Yvette Foster. 45 pgs.

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...functional equivalent of battered woman syndrome. by Tosha Yvette...in the Menendez trial and battered woman syndrome in the Bobbitt trial.(6...battered child syndrome and...
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Helping Battered Women: New Perspectives and Remedies (Chap. 9 "Battered Women, Homicide, and the Legal System") » Read Now
by Albert R. Roberts. 254 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

Recent estimates indicate that as many as 8.7 million women are beaten in their homes each year. This is an alarming national statistic, but there is hope. This book examines both social work and criminal justice professional's methods of intervention on behalf of battered women escaping from...
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Recent estimates indicate that as many as 8.7 million women are beaten in their homes each year. This is an alarming national statistic, but there is hope. This book examines both social work and criminal justice professional's methods of intervention on behalf of battered women escaping from violent relationships. Helping Battered Women fills a major gap in the literature on the subject. The author provides the reader with the most current, comprehensive, empirically-based, and realistic overview of policy and intervention methods of women escaping from violent relationships. This interdisciplinary volume integrates a rich diversity of perspectives by internationally recognized professors and scholars in the fields of social work, clinical psychology, and criminal justice. The authors of each of the individual chapters tackle one of the major social problems of our times--violence against women--in a systematic and sensitive manner. The authors provide a clear and cogent argument for advocacy and social change in battered women's shelters, police precincts, state legislatures, and the nation's criminal courts.
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Witnessing for Sociology: Sociologists in Court (Chap. 9 "The Sociologist, Gangs, and Battered Women: Representing the Discipline in the Courts") » Read Now
by Pamela J. Jenkins, Steve Kroll-Smith, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Kai Erikson. 272 pgs.

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The American court system is making increasing use of sociologists as expert witnesses. From toxic torts to religious cults and brainwashing, sociological knowledge is becoming increasingly more commonplace in the legal arena. This edited volume is a collection of the experiences of sociologists who...
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The American court system is making increasing use of sociologists as expert witnesses. From toxic torts to religious cults and brainwashing, sociological knowledge is becoming increasingly more commonplace in the legal arena. This edited volume is a collection of the experiences of sociologists who have appeared as expert witnesses in a variety of court cases. Many of the cases covered in this book revolve around central issues of murder, self-defense, religious cults, battered women, child pornography, environmentalism, and homelessness. This volume is unique in its breadth of topics and contributions.
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Criminal Law and Women: Giving the Abused Woman Who Kills a Jury of Her Peers Who Appreciate Trifles, in American Criminal Law Review » Read Now
by Marina Angel. 20 pgs.

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...coordinated.(23) The mention of battered woman syndrome by a panelist solicited a hysterical...photocopied materials a section on battered child syndrome, first identified...
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The "New Syndrome Excuse Syndrome", in Criminal Justice Ethics » Read Now
by Stephen J. Morse. 12 pgs.

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...they often arise, include," Battered Woman Syndrome,"(11) "Vietnam Syndrome...novelty is the introduction of battered woman syndrome evidence to support...
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Psychiatric Evidence in Criminal Trials: To Junk or Not to Junk?, in William and Mary Law Review » Read Now
by Christopher Slobogin. 56 pgs.

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...The abuse excuse,"(1) "battered woman syndrome,"(2) "child sexual abuse...testimony." For instance, the battered woman syndrome (BWS) describes the state...Violence: A...