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Convicted Survivors: The Imprisonment of Battered Women Who Kill Book

Convicted Survivors: The Imprisonment of Battered Women Who Kill
Convicted Survivors: The Imprisonment of Battered Women Who Kill, When a woman survives a deadly assault by her male abuser by using lethal self-defense, she often faces a punitive criminal justice system-one that largely failed to respond to her earlier calls for help. In this book, Elizabeth Dermody Leonard examines t, Convicted Survivors: The Imprisonment of Battered Women Who Kill has a rating of 4.5 stars
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Convicted Survivors: The Imprisonment of Battered Women Who Kill, When a woman survives a deadly assault by her male abuser by using lethal self-defense, she often faces a punitive criminal justice system-one that largely failed to respond to her earlier calls for help. In this book, Elizabeth Dermody Leonard examines t, Convicted Survivors: The Imprisonment of Battered Women Who Kill
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  • Convicted Survivors: The Imprisonment of Battered Women Who Kill
  • Written by author Elizabeth D. Leonard
  • Published by State University of New York Press, April 2002
  • When a woman survives a deadly assault by her male abuser by using lethal self-defense, she often faces a punitive criminal justice system-one that largely failed to respond to her earlier calls for help. In this book, Elizabeth Dermody Leonard examines t
  • Explores the experiences of women imprisoned for killing their male abusers and their treatment by the criminal justice system.
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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Ch. 1Introduction3
Ch. 2Battered Women Who Kill and the Criminal Justice System: A Review of the Literature13
Ch. 3Explaining Intimate Violence: Theoretical and Methodological Framework39
Ch. 4Study Format and Design49
Ch. 5A Profile of Convicted Survivors57
Ch. 6Minimizing and Forgetting Violence73
Ch. 7Self-Identifying as a Battered Woman79
Ch. 8Police Involvement85
Calling 91185
Barriers to Calling 91191
Ch. 9Coercive Drugging95
Ch. 10Adjudication Processes103
Ch. 11Conclusion and Policy Implications115
Ch. 12Portraits129
App. AInformed Consent Statements141
App. B: Survey Questionnaires145
App. C: Interview Guide171
Notes175
References177
Author Index195
Subject Index199


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