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Convicted survivors : the imprisonment of battered women who kill / Elizabeth Dermody Leonard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leonard, Elizabeth Dermody, 1948-
- Series:
- SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Female offenders--California.
- Female offenders.
- Women prisoners--California.
- Women prisoners.
- Abused women--California.
- Abused women.
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration--California.
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- California.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 202 pages : forms ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- Chapter 2. Battered Women Who Kill and the Criminal Justice System: A Review of the Literature 13
- Chapter 3. Explaining Intimate Violence: Theoretical and Methodological Framework 39
- Chapter 4. Study Format and Design 49
- Chapter 5. A Profile of Convicted Survivors 57
- Part II Narratives of Personal Experiences: An Introduction
- Chapter 6. Minimizing and Forgetting Violence 73
- Chapter 7. Self-Identifying as a Battered Woman 79
- Chapter 8. Police Involvement 85
- Calling 911 85
- Barriers to Calling 911 91
- Chapter 9. Coercive Drugging 95
- Chapter 10. Adjudication Processes 103
- Chapter 11. Conclusion and Policy Implications 115
- Chapter 12. Portraits 129
- Appendix A Informed Consent Statements 141.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0791453278
- 0791453286
- OCLC:
- 47216301
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