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Genre/Form: | Trials, litigation, etc Cases Jurisprudence |
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Additional Physical Format: | Sheehy, Elizabeth A, author. Defending battered women on trial.: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2013. (CaOONL)2013906379X |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth A Sheehy |
ISBN: | 9780774826518 0774826517 0774826525 9780774826525 |
OCLC Number: | 854497801 |
Awards: | Winner of David Walter Mundell Medal, Office of the Attorney General 2015 (Canada) Short-listed for Canada Prize in the Social Sciences, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2015 (Canada) |
Description: | 469 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Angelique Lyn Lavallee -- Bonnie Mooney -- Kimberley Kondejewski -- Gladys Heavenfire and Doreen Sorenson -- Donelda Kay, Denise Robin Rain, and Jamie Gladue -- Lilian Getkate -- Margaret Ann Malott and Rita Graveline. |
Series Title: | Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.) |
Responsibility: | Elizabeth A. Sheehy. |
Abstract:
Drawing on trial transcripts, this book tells the stories of ten battered women who killed their male partners and one who did not, revealing why women don't "just leave" and the serious barriers to achieving acquittal.
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In Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts, Sheehy offers a compelling and startling account of the criminal justice system's failure to protect women from the men who batter them. She begins the book by situating the issue in its historical legal context. Making the work accessible to an audience much broader than just those well-versed in criminal law, Sheehy provides the reader with ample background to understand the legal context in Canada both prior to and in the years following the Supreme Court of Canada's 1990 recognition of battered women syndrome in R. v Lavallee. Read more...
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