Criminal Law Defences Available to Battered Women Who Kill Their Abusers. A Psycho-legal Analysis

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Sociology - Law and Delinquency, University of Newcastle, course: LLB Law, language: English, abstract: This paper will focus on explaining why trying to categorize "e;Battered Woman Syndrome Cases"e; under one defense is not only simplistic, but naive and unjustified. The defenses available to battered women who kill should be specific to the circ...