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Finding Their Voices
Amy Lou Busch
其他書名
Listening to Battered Women Who've Killed
出版Kroshka Books, 1999
主題Family & Relationships / Abuse / GeneralSocial Science / CriminologyTrue Crime / Murder / General
ISBN15607261809781560726180
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4YtHAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The life stories of these women can inform the theory used to describe them, illuminating disjunctions between the battered woman syndrome and their own explanations for their actions. By revealing the social and legal constraints that have shaped the women's behavior, these stories indicate factors that society and the criminal justice system should consider when pronouncing judgment on battered women and their "crimes." In examining the stories of four of these women, a theory emerges that contradicts the passive, helpless implications of the syndrome theory and portrays these women, correctly, as survivors of life-threatening circumstances.