Convicted survivors : the imprisonment of battered women who kill / Elizabeth Dermody Leonard.
2002
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Title
Convicted survivors : the imprisonment of battered women who kill / Elizabeth Dermody Leonard.
Published
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
HV6046 .L47 2002
ISBN
0791453278 (alk. paper)
0791453286 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0791453286 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xvi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)47216301
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and indexes.
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Portion of Title
Imprisonment of battered women who kill
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Foreword / Nancy K. D. Lemon
Acknowledgments
Ch. 1
Introduction
3
Ch. 2
Battered Women Who Kill and the Criminal Justice System: A Review of the Literature
13
Ch. 3
Explaining Intimate Violence: Theoretical and Methodological Framework
39
Ch. 4
Study Format and Design
49
Ch. 5
A Profile of Convicted Survivors
57
Ch. 6
Minimizing and Forgetting Violence
73
Ch. 7
Self-Identifying as a Battered Woman
79
Ch. 8
Police Involvement
85
Calling 911
85
Barriers to Calling 911
91
Ch. 9
Coercive Drugging
95
Ch. 10
Adjudication Processes
103
Ch. 11
Conclusion and Policy Implications
115
Ch. 12
Portraits
129
App. A
Informed Consent Statements
141
App. B: Survey Questionnaires
145
App. C: Interview Guide
171
Notes
175
References
177
Author Index
195
Subject Index
199