Battered Women Doing Time : : Injustice in the Criminal Justice System / / Rachel Zimmer Schneider.
When is killing an abusive partner an act of murder, and when is it self-defense? How does our criminal justice system deal with battered women who kill, and to what effect? Rachel Schneider traces the lives of women who sought clemency after being imprisoned for killing their abusers, drawing on a...
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Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t 1 Strength, Survival, and Resilience -- |t 2 Life Before Prison -- |t 3 The Killing and the Aftermath -- |t 4 Life on the Inside -- |t 5 Clemency: Denied -- |t 6 Clemency: Granted -- |t 7 Deserving or Not? -- |t 8 Making Sense of It All -- |t Appendix A: The Research Process -- |t Appendix B: Summary of Women -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index -- |t About the Book |
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