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Convicted Survivors : The Imprisonment of Battered Women Who Kill.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Series in Women, Crime, and Criminology SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (219 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780791488881
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Convicted SurvivorsDDC classification:
  • 364.3/74/09794
LOC classification:
  • HV6046 -- .L47 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Convicted Survivors -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Foreword by Dr. Nancy K.D. Lemon, Esq. -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Battered Women Who Kill and the Criminal Justice System: A Review of the Literature -- 3. Explaining Intimate Violence: Theoretical and Methodological Framework -- 4. Study Format and Design -- 5. A Profile of Convicted Survivors -- Part II: Narratives of Personal Experiences: An Introduction -- 6. Minimizing and Forgetting Violence -- 7. Self-Identifying as a Battered Woman -- 8. Police Involvement -- CALLING 911 -- BARRIERS TO CALLING 911 -- 9. Coercive Drugging -- 10. Adjudication Processes -- 11. Conclusion and Policy Implications -- 12. Portraits -- Appendix A: Informed Consent Statement -- Appendix B: Survey Questionnaires -- Appendix C: Interview Guide -- Notes -- Chapter Two. Battered Women Who Kill and the Criminal Justice System -- Chapter Five. A Profile of Convicted Survivors -- Chapter Nine. Coercive Drugging -- Chapter Eleven. Conclusion and Policy Implications -- References -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: Explores the experiences of women imprisoned for killing their male abusers and their treatment by the criminal justice system.
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Intro -- Convicted Survivors -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Foreword by Dr. Nancy K.D. Lemon, Esq. -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Battered Women Who Kill and the Criminal Justice System: A Review of the Literature -- 3. Explaining Intimate Violence: Theoretical and Methodological Framework -- 4. Study Format and Design -- 5. A Profile of Convicted Survivors -- Part II: Narratives of Personal Experiences: An Introduction -- 6. Minimizing and Forgetting Violence -- 7. Self-Identifying as a Battered Woman -- 8. Police Involvement -- CALLING 911 -- BARRIERS TO CALLING 911 -- 9. Coercive Drugging -- 10. Adjudication Processes -- 11. Conclusion and Policy Implications -- 12. Portraits -- Appendix A: Informed Consent Statement -- Appendix B: Survey Questionnaires -- Appendix C: Interview Guide -- Notes -- Chapter Two. Battered Women Who Kill and the Criminal Justice System -- Chapter Five. A Profile of Convicted Survivors -- Chapter Nine. Coercive Drugging -- Chapter Eleven. Conclusion and Policy Implications -- References -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Explores the experiences of women imprisoned for killing their male abusers and their treatment by the criminal justice system.

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