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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
©2014
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (153 p.)
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