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Details a new social interaction theory and teaches judges,
attorneys, advocates, and academics how to apply it in a trial
setting. Battering relationships often escalate to a point where
the battered woman commits homicide. When such homicides occur,
attention is usually focused on the final violent encounter;
however, Ogle and Jacobs argue, while that act is the last
homicidal encounter, it is not the only one. This important study
argues that the battering relationship is properly understood as a
long-term homicidal process that, if played out to the point that
contrition dissipates, is very likely to result in the death of one
of the parties. In that context, Ogle and Jacobs posit a social
interaction perspective for understanding the situational,
cultural, social, and structural forces that work toward
maintaining the battering relationship and escalating it to a
homicidal end. This book details this theory and explains how to
apply it in a trial setting. Elements of self-defense law are
problematic for battered women who kill their abusers. These
include imminence, reasonableness of the victim's perception of
danger, and reasonableness of the victim's choice of lethal
violence and their proportionality. Social interaction theory
argues that, once contrition dissipates, imminence is constant. The
victim functions in an unending state of extreme tension and fear.
This allows us to understand the victim's view of the violence as
escalating beyond control, thereby increasing her reasonable
perception of danger and lethality. After social resources, for
whatever reason, fail to end the violence, it is then reasonable
for the victim to conclude that she will have to act in her own
defense in order to survive.
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