Title Convicted survivors : the imprisonment of battered women who kill / Elizabeth Dermody Leonard

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 202 pages) Series SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology. Contents Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction -- Ch. 2 Battered Women Who Kill and the Criminal Justice System: A Review of the Literature -- Ch. 3 Explaining Intimate Violence: Theoretical and Methodological Framework -- Ch. 4 Study Format and Design -- Ch. 5 Profile of Convicted Survivors -- Ch. 6 Minimizing and Forgetting Violence -- Ch. 7 Self-Identifying as a Battered Woman -- Ch. 8 Police Involvement -- Calling 911 -- Barriers to Calling 911 -- Ch. 9 Coercive Drugging -- Ch. 10 Adjudication Processes -- Ch. 11 Conclusion and Policy Implications -- Ch. 12 Portraits -- App. A Informed Consent Statements Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Female offenders -- California Women prisoners -- California Abused women -- California Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- California SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. Abused women Female offenders Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration Women prisoners California Form Electronic book ISBN 0585465738 9780585465739 0791453278 9780791453278 0791453286 9780791453285 9780791488881 0791488888

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