218 pagesHardcovernewApr 2002
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Explores the experiences of women imprisoned for killing their male abusers and their treatment by the criminal justice system.
When a woman survives a deadly assault by her male abuser by using lethal self-defense, she often faces a punitive criminal justice system-one that largely failed to respond to her earlier cal
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