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More Than Victims

Donald Alexander Downs
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      Donald Downs offers an analysis of the injustices behind the logic of battered woman syndrome, concluding that this very logic harms those it is trying to protect. The text argues that battered women often adopt heroic means of survival, retaining accurate, reasoned perceptions concerning the actions and intentions of their abusers, and to portray battered women as lacking reason and will undermines otherwise valid self-defence claims and hurts women more generally. Also explored in the work is the "Syndrome Society" more generally. The author asserts that justice can be achieved without stripping victims of reason and reponsibility - the very attributes that make citizenship possible.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Donald Alexander Downs EAN: 9780226161594 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 567 g HEIGHT: 23 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1996-12-01 CITY: GENRE: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse / General, LAW / Family Law / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies WIDTH: 16 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, Domestic abuse, Gender studies: women and girls, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Criminal law: procedure and offences

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      Donald Alexander Downs is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment.
      Donald Downs offers an analysis of the injustices behind the logic of battered woman syndrome, concluding that this very logic harms those it is trying to protect. The text argues that battered women often adopt heroic means of survival, retaining accurate, reasoned perceptions concerning the actions and intentions of their abusers, and to portray battered women as lacking reason and will undermines otherwise valid self-defence claims and hurts women more generally. Also explored in the work is the "Syndrome Society" more generally. The author asserts that justice can be achieved without stripping victims of reason and reponsibility - the very attributes that make citizenship possible.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Donald Alexander Downs EAN: 9780226161594 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 567 g HEIGHT: 23 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1996-12-01 CITY: GENRE: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse / General, LAW / Family Law / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies WIDTH: 16 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, Domestic abuse, Gender studies: women and girls, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Criminal law: procedure and offences

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      Donald Alexander Downs is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment.

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