Battered Women Doing Time : : Injustice in the Criminal Justice System / / Rachel Zimmer Schneider.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Schneider, Rachel Zimmer,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (153 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Strength, Survival, and Resilience --; 2 Life Before Prison --; 3 The Killing and the Aftermath --; 4 Life on the Inside --; 5 Clemency: Denied --; 6 Clemency: Granted --; 7 Deserving or Not? --; 8 Making Sense of It All --; Appendix A: The Research Process --; Appendix B: Summary of Women --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781626372924; 9783110784244
• DOI: 10.1515/9781626372924
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rachel Zimmer Schneider.

When is killing an abusive partner an act of murder, and when is it self-defense? How does our criminal justice system deal with battered women who kill, and to what effect? Rachel Schneider traces the lives of women who sought clemency after being imprisoned for killing their abusers, drawing on a series of intimate interviews to explore the circumstances leading up to the killings, the women’s experiences in the courts and in prison, and the diverging paths of those whose sentences were commuted and those who will spend their lives behind bars.