More Than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law (Morality and Society Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (795 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226161595 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 317 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Battered Women a complex, societal issue and a gift from Congress Karin Huffer More than Victims is a good title in that the factors that surround battered women are many layered, complex, and challenge our systems of care. A battered woman is not once assaulted and then turns to the legal system that provides protection and assistance. Instead they enter an adversarial system that too often complicates the picture. They not only are left with post traumatic stress disorder, the batterer is usually a coercive controller that dominates finances, uses power games, and can use the court system against the victi
. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin Madison. His other books include More than Victims and Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus. Donald Alexander Downs, an undergraduate at Cornell during the uprising, is the Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science, Law, and Journalism and the Glenn B
From Publishers Weekly Legal gadfly Alan Dershowitz called them "abuse excuses" in last year's The Abuse Excuse in which he railed against the burgeoning use of criminal self-defenses such as battered-child syndrome and battered-woman syndrome. Downs, a political scientist, doesn't rant. Relying on a BWS defense, he argues repeatedly, signals an incapacity to employ reason and take responsibility. Based on interviews with battered women, experts in the field and prodigious research, Downs concludes that BWS-based defenses are unable to help women who kill in nonconfrontational situations. . Instead, he considers the ability of these defenses to increase society's awareness of the special fears of individuals "subjected to violence and related forms of abuse on a sustained basis." But he also dis
Downs demonstrates a masterful grasp of the complex legal and philosophical issues implicated in domestic violence cases."—Annette DeMichele, New York Law Journal. But they also need to be able to participate fully in the discourse of politics and citizenship. Downs offers a solution that helps to make both possible."—Teresa Godwin Phelps, Review of Politics"Downs has written an important book on a subject that deserves more of our attention."— Susan Mezey, Law and Politics Book Review"Comprehensive and compelling. A persuasive account of