Leonard Convicted Survivors

The Imprisonment of Battered Women Who Kill
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8888-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 218 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Women, Crime, and Criminology

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leonard, Elizabeth Dermody

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
9. Coercive Drugging
10. Adjudication Processes
11. Conclusion and Policy Implications
12. Portraits
Appendix A: Informed Consent Statements
Appendix B: Survey Questionnaires
Appendix C: Interview Guide
Notes

References
Author Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Dermody Leonard is Professor of Sociology at Vanguard University.