Self-defense and battered women who kill : a new framework
This study argues that the battering relationship is properly understood as a long-term homicidal process. The authors posit a social interaction perspective for understanding the forces that work toward maintaining the battering relationship and escalating it to a homicidal end
xii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780313016103, 9780275967116, 0313016100, 0275967115
805257376
1. An Overview
2. A Review of the Relevant Literature
3. Battering as a Slow Homicidal Process: A Social Interaction Perspective
4. The Law of Self-Defense and the Battered Woman
5. The Traditional Test Case Revisited
6. Application of These Theoretical Ideas to Gay and Lesbian Battering / Anne Garner and Robbin S. Ogle