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Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts

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Description for Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts Paperback. Drawing on trial transcripts, this book tells the stories of ten battered women who killed their male partners and one who did not, revealing why women don't "just leave" and the serious barriers to achieving acquittal. Series: Law and Society Series. Num Pages: 492 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JFSJ1; LNFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 726.

In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of “battered woman syndrome” was admissible in establishing self-defence for women accused of killing their abusive partners. This book looks at the legal response to battered women who killed their partners in the fifteen years since Lavallee.

Elizabeth Sheehy uses trial transcripts and a case study approach to tell the stories of eleven women, ten of whom killed their partners. She looks at the barriers women face to “just leaving,” the various ways in which self-defence was argued in these cases, and which form of expert ... Read more

In Canada, a woman is killed every six days by her male partner, and about twelve women per year kill their male partners. By illuminating the cases of eleven women, this book highlights the barriers to leaving violent men and the practical and legal dilemmas that face battered women on trial for murder.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
492
Condition
New
Series
Law and Society Series
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774826525
SKU
V9780774826525
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Ref
99-1

About Elizabeth A. Sheehy
Elizabeth A. Sheehy is Shirley Greenberg Professor of Women and the Legal Profession in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. She is a leading scholar on the legal system’s treatment of battered women in Canada. In 2013 she was awarded the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law by the Canadian Bar Association, an annual award that recognizes ... Read more

Reviews for Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts
In Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts, Sheehy offers a compelling and startling account of the criminal justice system’s failure to protect women from the men who batter them. She begins the book by situating the issue in its historical legal context. Making the work accessible to an audience much broader than just those well-versed in criminal ... Read more

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