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10%OFFSaundra Westervelt - Shifting The Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense (Economy; 21) - 9780813525846 - V9780813525846
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Shifting The Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense (Economy; 21)

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Description for Shifting The Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense (Economy; 21) Paperback. .

More than just a study of legal history, Shifting the Blame looks at the "abuse excuse" defense as an indicator of broad social change in cultural understandings of victimization, responsibility, and womanhood. The introduction of victimization as an exculpatory condition within the context of a criminal defense tells the story of a society that has accepted victimization as a new way of explaining and excusing misbehavior.

Through case law analysis, the book documents the initial development of the strategy in three different types of cases in the 1970s - "rotten social background", brainwashing, and battered women's self-defense cases. Since its initial ... Read more

Saundra D. Westervelt is an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813525846
SKU
V9780813525846
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About Saundra Westervelt
Saundra D. Westervelt is an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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