The Battered Woman Syndrome

The Battered Woman Syndrome
Author: Lenore E. Walker
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2001-07-26
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780826143235

In this latest edition of her groundbreaking book, Dr. Lenore Walker has provided a thorough update to her original findings in the field of domestic abuse. Each chapter has been expanded to include new research. The volume contains the latest on the impact of exposure to violence on children, marital rape, child abuse, personality characteristics of different types of batterers, new psychotherapy models for batterers and their victims, and more. Walker also speaks out on her involvement in the O.J. Simpson trial as a defense witness and how he does not fit the empirical data known for domestic violence. This volume should be required reading for all professionals in the field of domestic abuse. For Further Information, Please Click Here!

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
Author: Manning Marable
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2015-11-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1608465128

"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing texts that has not lost its currency or relevance—even after three decades. Its provocative treatise on the ravages of late capitalism, state violence, incarceration, and patriarchy on the life chances and struggles of black working-class men and women shaped an entire generation, directing our energies to the terrain of the prison-industrial complex, anti-racist work, labor organizing, alternatives to racial capitalism, and challenging patriarchy—personally and politically."—Robin D. G. Kelley "In this new edition of his classic text . . . Marable can challenge a new generation to find solutions to the problems that constrain the present but not our potential to seek and define a better future."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "[A] prescient analysis."—Michael Eric Dyson How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is a classic study of the intersection of racism and class in the United States. It has become a standard text for courses in American politics and history, and has been central to the education of thousands of political activists since the 1980s. This edition is prsented with a new foreword by Leith Mullings.

Battered Women's Protective Strategies

Battered Women's Protective Strategies
Author: Sherry Hamby
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2014
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0199873658

This provocative book presents a strengths-based framework that challenges negative stereotypes about battered women. The volume also outlines ways to improve research, risk assessment, and safety planning.

When Battered Women Kill

When Battered Women Kill
Author: Angela Browne
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1439118655

A compassionate look at 42 battered women who felt "locked in with danger and so desperate that they killed a man they loved"; scholarly and compelling.

Rural Women Battering and the Justice System

Rural Women Battering and the Justice System
Author: Neil Websdale
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1998
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780761908524

A training resource for anyone working with battered women, especially in rural areas, Rural Woman Battering and the Justice System is recommended for law enforcement and criminal justice professionals, practitioners, advocates, shelter personnel, and advanced students in related courses of study, as well as academics and researchers.

Understanding Violence Against Women

Understanding Violence Against Women
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 1996-06-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309175836

Violence against women is one factor in the growing wave of alarm about violence in American society. High-profile cases such as the O.J. Simpson trial call attention to the thousands of lesser-known but no less tragic situations in which women's lives are shattered by beatings or sexual assault. The search for solutions has highlighted not only what we know about violence against women but also what we do not know. How can we achieve the best understanding of this problem and its complex ramifications? What research efforts will yield the greatest benefit? What are the questions that must be answered? Understanding Violence Against Women presents a comprehensive overview of current knowledge and identifies four areas with the greatest potential return from a research investment by increasing the understanding of and responding to domestic violence and rape: What interventions are designed to do, whom they are reaching, and how to reach the many victims who do not seek help. Factors that put people at risk of violence and that precipitate violence, including characteristics of offenders. The scope of domestic violence and sexual assault in America and its conequences to individuals, families, and society, including costs. How to structure the study of violence against women to yield more useful knowledge. Despite the news coverage and talk shows, the real fundamental nature of violence against women remains unexplored and often misunderstood. Understanding Violence Against Women provides direction for increasing knowledge that can help ameliorate this national problem.

Women at Risk

Women at Risk
Author: Evan Stark
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1996-03-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0803970412

The dominant explanations of domestic violence, and the institutions to which battered women traditionally turn are challenged in this book. The final chapter deals with prevention suggesting ways in which male coercion will not be tolerated.

Defending Battered Women on Trial

Defending Battered Women on Trial
Author: Elizabeth A. Sheehy
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2013-12-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0774826541

In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of “battered woman syndrome” was admissible in establishing self-defence for women accused of killing their abusive partners. This book looks at the legal response to battered women who killed their partners in the fifteen years since Lavallee. Elizabeth Sheehy uses trial transcripts and a case study approach to tell the stories of eleven women, ten of whom killed their partners. She looks at the barriers women face to “just leaving,” the various ways in which self-defence was argued in these cases, and which form of expert testimony was used to frame women’s experience of battering. Drawing upon a rich expanse of research from many disciplines, she highlights the limitations of the law of self-defence and the costs to women undergoing a murder trial. In a final chapter, she proposes numerous reforms. In Canada, a woman is killed every six days by her male partner, and about twelve women per year kill their male partners. By illuminating the cases of eleven women, this book highlights the barriers to leaving violent men and the practical and legal dilemmas that face battered women on trial for murder.

It Could Happen to Anyone

It Could Happen to Anyone
Author: Alyce D. LaViolette
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452277745

This revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive examination of why women stay in abusive relationships and why they leave, explaining why women should not be blamed for their victimization.

Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking

Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking
Author: Elizabeth M. Schneider
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0300128932

Women’s rights advocates in the United States have long argued that violence against women denies women equality and citizenship, but it took a movement of feminist activists and lawyers, beginning in the late 1960s, to set about realizing this vision and transforming domestic violence from a private problem into a public harm. This important book examines the pathbreaking legal process that has brought the pervasiveness and severity of domestic violence to public attention and has led the United States Congress, the Supreme Court, and the United Nations to address the problem. Elizabeth Schneider has played a pioneering role in this process. From an insider’s perspective she explores how claims of rights for battered women have emerged from feminist activism, and she assesses the possibilities and limitations of feminist legal advocacy to improve battered women’s lives and transform law and culture. The book chronicles the struggle to incorporate feminist arguments into law, particularly in cases of battered women who kill their assailants and battered women who are mothers. With a broad perspective on feminist lawmaking as a vehicle of social change, Schneider examines subjects as wide-ranging as criminal prosecution of batterers, the civil rights remedy of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, the O. J. Simpson trials, and a class on battered women and the law that she taught at Harvard Law School. Feminist lawmaking on woman abuse, Schneider argues, should reaffirm the historic vision of violence and gender equality that originally animated activist and legal work.