Shifting the Blame
Subtitle: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: January 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780813525839
Subjects: Criminal law; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Women's studies; Victimology; Psychology; Services For Victims Of Crime; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Sociology; USA; Legal History; Legal System; Criminology; Victims of crimes; Abused women; Crime; Sociological aspects
First sentence: In January 1994, two criminal court cases seized the national spotlight.