More Than Victims
Subtitle: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law (Morality and Society Series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: October 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780226161600
Subjects: Courts & procedure; Criminal law; Domestic violence; Women's studies; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Self-Help; USA; Criminal Law - General; Law / Criminal Law; Abuse - General; General
First sentence: This is a book about the uses and abuses of the new type of "syndrome" excuses for criminal actions that have gripped criminal law and justice for better than a decade.