The 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 "Battered Woman Syndrome Cases" under one defense is not only simplistic, but naive and unjustified. The defenses available to battered women who kill should be specific to the circumst...