Battered Women Doing Time: Injustice in the Criminal Justice System

Battered Women Doing Time: Injustice in the Criminal Justice System

Author
Rachel Zimmer Schneider
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Language
English
Year
2022
Page
153
ISBN
9781626372924
File Type
pdf
File Size
2.9 MiB

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 series of intimate interviews to explore the circumstances leading up to the killings, the women’s experiences in the courts and in prison, and the diverging paths of those whose sentences were commuted and those who will spend their lives behind bars.

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