(Online library) More Than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law (Morality and Society Series)
▲ Donald Alexander Downs ▲
| #4720324 in Books | 1996-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.24 | File Name: 0226161595 | 317 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Battered Women a complex, societal issue and a gift from Congress|By 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 s|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 politic
In More Than Victims, Donald Downs offers a sympathetic and powerful analysis of the problems attending the use of battered-woman syndrome as a legal defense, ultimately revealing how the syndrome's logic actually harms those it is trying to protect. A persuasive account of how constitutional freedom and individual justice can be threatened by current legal standards, this thorough yet accessible work presents a dramatic rethinking of the criminal justice sy... [PDF.yo18] More Than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law (Morality and Society Series) Rating: 4.77 (638 Votes)
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