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Self-Defense and Battered Women Who Kill - 9780275967116

Un libro in lingua di Ogle Robbin S. Susan Jacobs edito da Greenwood Pub Group, 2002

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Utilizing social theory to develop a workable self-defense argument for battered women who kill their batterers, Ogle and Jacobs (both from the Department of Criminal Justice at the U. of Nebraska at Omaha) argue that bettering should be understood as an interaction process significantly influenced by social realities. Rather than relying on traditional self-defense law, which focuses only on single violent encounters, they suggest that the battering relationship needs to be seen as a "long-term homicidal interaction process with a sociologically identifiable pattern" to which normal women could reasonably said to be killing to avoid death. Their theoretical perspective is applied to a 1993 test case and attempts are made to apply it to the slightly different (according to the authors) phenomenon of gay and lesbian battering. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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