Battered women
Subtitle: fighting back
By: CBS New Productions ; producer, Robert Higgins
Contributors: CBS News; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: Domestic violence in America
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Family violence; Abused wives; Legal status, laws; Psychology; Abused women; Abusive men; Crimes against; Marital violence
Other titles: Battered women--fighting back; Against the law (Television program)
Description: "When a woman kills a man who beats her, is it murder? Or is it justice? This program examines the legality of when, ever, a victim of domestic violence is justified in killing her abuser. The Jane Abbott and Linda Logan cases assess the courtroom admissibility of evidence of battering, while the high-profile Lorena Bobbitt case and others raise the question of whether the plea of battered woman syndrome can be manipulated into a license to maim--or kill."--Container.
Notes: Disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Host: Jose Diaz-Balart.

Segments originally aired on the CBS Television Network as episodes of  Against the Law on July 17, 1991, June 22, 1994, June 16, 1997.

DVD-R.