More Than Victims by Donald Alexander Downs

More Than Victims by Donald Alexander Downs

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Zusammenfassung

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. This work seeks to rethink the criminal justice system.

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More Than Victims by Donald Alexander Downs

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.
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ISBN 13 9780226161594
ISBN 10 0226161595
Titel More Than Victims
Autor Donald Alexander Downs
Serie Morality And Society Series
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Verlag The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr 1996-12-01
Seitenanzahl 317
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