Shifting The Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense

by Saundra D. Westervelt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813525845
• ISBN13: 9780813525846
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"