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Battered women doing time : injustice in the criminal justice system / Rachel Zimmer Schneider.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schneider, Rachel Zimmer, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women murderers--United States.
- Women murderers.
- Abused women--United States--Psychology.
- Abused women.
- Abused women--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 152 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Col : FirstForumPress, a division of Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. , 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Strength, survival, and resilience
- Life before prison
- The killing and the aftermath
- Life on the inside
- Clemency : denied
- Clemency : granted
- Deserving or not?
- Making sense of it all.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62637-292-6
- 9781626372924 (electronic book)
- OCLC:
- 920812481
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