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Author Schneider, Rachel Zimmer.

Title Battered women doing time : injustice in the criminal justice system / Rachel Zimmer Schneider.

Publication Info. Boulder, Col. : FirstForumPress, 2014.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  364.152 S359B    Check Shelf
Description viii, 153 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149) and index.
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.
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.
Subject Women murderers -- United States.
Abused women -- United States -- Psychology.
Abused women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Abused women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst00794885
Abused women -- Psychology. (OCoLC)fst00794892
Women murderers. (OCoLC)fst01178169
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Standard No. 40022949577
ISBN 9781935049791 (hc ;) (alk. paper)
1935049798 (hc ;) (alk. paper)
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