The topic of women who kill, particularly battered women who kill
their spouses had been an area of conflicts and invited many
critics especially in the applicability of the legal defenses. The
problems arise in the aspect of accommodating the background
factors of the killing into the defenses and the interpretation of
the law itself. The traditional interpretation of the legal
defenses is claimed by many to be unjust because it has been
developed through male experience and has been seen from male
perspective. Women therefore, have been silenced by the law and
this claim is evident in the applicability of legal defenses,
whereby women who kill, face on-going difficulties in presenting
their cases. The book demonstrates the recurrent background factors
in cases of women who kill, examines the effects of these factors
on the applicability of legal defenses and proposes new strategies
and alternatives developed for these women as an effort to
represent their experience in the criminal justice system in
England.
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