Battered Woman Syndrome As A Legal Defense
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Battered Woman Syndrome As A Legal Defense
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Author : Brenda L. Russell
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Battered Woman Syndrome As A Legal Defense written by Brenda L. Russell and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Battered Woman Syndrome
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Author : Lenore E. Walker
language : en
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Release Date : 2001-07-26
The Battered Woman Syndrome written by Lenore E. Walker and has been published by Springer Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-26 with Family & Relationships categories.
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!
More Than Victims
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Author : Donald Alexander Downs
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1998-10
More Than Victims written by Donald Alexander Downs and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10 with Family & Relationships categories.
Donald Downs offers an analysis of the injustices behind the logic of battered woman syndrome, concluding that this very logic harms those it is trying to protect. This work seeks to rethink the criminal justice system.
Battered Women S Justice
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Author : Patricia Gagné
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1998
Battered Women S Justice written by Patricia Gagné and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Family & Relationships categories.
In December 1990 Ohio governor Richard F. Celeste granted clemency to 25 women who had been incarcerated for killing or assaulting abusive partners or stepfathers. Governors in other states quickly followed. This book documents the history of the feminist and social activist groups working within the context of the battered women's movement and the role they playing in making these events possible. The book examines the Ohio movement as a precedent-setting case study, then discusses and analyzes events in six other states where large-scale clemencies were achieved or attempted. Before clemency became a movement goal, feminist legal activists worked for two decades to challenge laws that they argued prevented women from fully defending themselves when accused of killing abusive men. One focus was to ensure that the women who killed could describe the danger with which they had lived and explain the basis of their belief that force was needed to defend their lives. Within a few years, some activists began to frame their legal defense strategies within the language of the battered woman syndrome, a strategy that remains controversial. The book analyses the strategies and achievements of the movement for clemency review, identifying the factors that led to success or failure. The last chapter looks at the post-prison lives of some of the 25 Ohio women who received clemency.
Defending Battered Women On Trial
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Author : Elizabeth A. Sheehy
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2013-12-15
Defending Battered Women On Trial written by Elizabeth A. Sheehy and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-15 with Family & Relationships categories.
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.
Battered Women Who Kill
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Author : Charles Patrick Ewing
language : en
Publisher: Free Press
Release Date : 1987
Battered Women Who Kill written by Charles Patrick Ewing and has been published by Free Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Law categories.
The Battered Woman Syndrome
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Author : Naira Roland Matevosyan
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-08-25
The Battered Woman Syndrome written by Naira Roland Matevosyan and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-25 with Law categories.
Testimony on battered woman syndrome (BWS), as a widely used self-defense strategy, has been accepted in all state courts of America. However, courts often hold that expert testimony on the BWS is inadmissible in a presented evidence where (1) it is irrelevant and immaterial to the issue of whether defendant acted in self-defense at the time of the battery; (2) the subject of the expert testimony isn't within the understanding of the jury; (3) the BWS is not sufficiently developed as an accepted scientific knowledge to warrant testimony under the guise of expertise; and (4) its prejudicial impact outweighs its probative value. For the first time in the legal scholarship, an attempt was made to use the Grounded Theory Model to analyze narratives and facts of twelve court holdings on BWS, to reach a facile consistency in defendants' sworn-in motivations on reasonableness and imminence of danger that made them kill their spouses in self-defense, also to find correlations between the expert testimonies of BWS, counts of charges, and the verdicts or dispositions rendered. Through inductive coding of the case narratives and expert testimonies, we then applied the Mantel-Haenszel method to produce pooled odds ratio of the codes. Kruskal-Wallis statistic was used for the ranked ordinal data; Poisson regression was used for prediction analysis as to the influence of narratives and expert testimonies (continuous variables) on the adjudications (dichotomous variable); Pearson linear correlations were used to find associations between the numerical variables - coded narratives and length of the sentence in prison. Findings suggest that expert testimony of BWS is admitted in 58.3 % of the holdings. In 14.3 % of hearings, the conviction is shifted from murder to manslaughter. The average duration of the battered women's sentence is 12.4 years. The charges are distributed for voluntary manslaughter (25%), reckless manslaughter (8.3%), possession of the firearms (8.3%), murder of the first or second degrees (16.7%), attempted murder of the second and third degrees (16.7%), assault of the second and third degrees (33.3%), kidnapping (8.3%), and breach of peace (8.3%). Expert testimony of BWS is influential when defendant proves that she reasonably believed that she would be killed at the time of the incidence (relative risk (RR) 1.75), history of illicit drug or alcohol abuse by the diseased (RR 2.0), the aggressors' (diseased) former verbal assaults to kill the defendant (RR 2.0), and the aggressor's criminal history (RR 1.4). These testaments are in substantial component associations with the judgments in favor of the defendant (r-square 0.89-0.91, p
Sex Culpability And The Defence Of Provocation
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Author : Danielle Tyson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
Sex Culpability And The Defence Of Provocation written by Danielle Tyson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Law categories.
Dealing with the complex case law concerning the use of the provocation defence in cases of intimate killings, Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation considers the construction and representation of subjectivity and sexual difference in legal narrations of homicide.
Justifiable Homicide
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Author : Cynthia K. Gillespie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Justifiable Homicide written by Cynthia K. Gillespie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Family & Relationships categories.
Examines over 300 cases in which women have attempted to defend themselves from violent partners.
Spiral Of Entrapment
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Author : Hallie Ludsin
language : en
Publisher: Jacana Media
Release Date : 2005
Spiral Of Entrapment written by Hallie Ludsin and has been published by Jacana Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Abused women categories.
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."