More Than Victims - Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law

In MORE THAN VICTIMS, author Donald Downs offers a sympathetic and powerful analysis of the problems attending the use of battered-woman syndrome as a legal defense, ultimately revealing how the syndrome's logic actually harms those it is trying to protect. A persuasive account of how constitutional freedom and individual justice can be threatened by current legal standards.

Summary

Donald Downs offers an analysis of the injustices behind the logic of battered woman syndrome, concluding that this very logic harms those it is trying to protect. This work seeks to rethink the criminal justice system.

Product details

• Authors: Downs, Donald Alexander Downs
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1998
• EAN: 9780226161600
• ISBN: 978-0-226-16160-0
• No. of pages: 317
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 482 g
• Series: Morality and Society (Paperbac; Morality and Society Series; Morality and Society Series (CHUP)
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology