More Than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law

by Donald Alexander Downs

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226161595
• ISBN13: 9780226161594
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"