Battered women doing time : injustice in the criminal justice system / / Rachel Zimmer Schneider
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| Autore: |
Schneider Rachel Zimmer
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| Titolo: |
Battered women doing time : injustice in the criminal justice system / / Rachel Zimmer Schneider
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| Pubblicazione: | Boulder, Col : , : FirstForumPress, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (150 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.152 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women murderers - United States |
| Abused women - United States - Psychology | |
| Abused women - Legal status, laws, etc - United States | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Battered women doing time |
| ISBN: | 1-62637-292-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808235503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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