Self-defense and Battered Women who Kill: A New Framework
- ISBN-10
- 0275967115
- ISBN-13
- 9780275967116
- Category
- Law / General
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Authors
- Susan Jacobs, Robbin S. Ogle
Description
Details a new social interaction theory and teaches judges, attorneys, advocates, and academics how to apply it in a trial setting.
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