1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808235503321

Autore

Schneider Rachel Zimmer

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Col : , : FirstForumPress, , 2014

ISBN

1-62637-292-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Disciplina

364.152

Soggetti

Women murderers - United States

Abused women - United States - Psychology

Abused women - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00019139

Autore

WANG, Charlotte Shiang-Yun

Titolo

Social mobility in Taiwan / Charlotte Shiang-yun Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taipei, : The Institute of Three Principles of the People Academia Sinica, 1979 21 p. ; 24 c

Classificazione

CIN XIII

Soggetti

Società cinese - Mobilità sociale - Taiwan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contributo presentato al "Tristate Modern China Seminar", University of Pittsburg, nell'aprile 1979))