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Shifting the blame : how victimization became a criminal defense / Saundra Davis Westervelt.
- Title
- Shifting the blame : how victimization became a criminal defense / Saundra Davis Westervelt.
- Author
- Westervelt, Saundra Davis, 1968-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HV6250.25 .W47 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 193 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-178) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Responsibility and the culture of victimization -- Responsibility under the law -- Deprivation, brainwashing, and battering : the beginnings of a victim-based strategy -- Extralegal factors and the success of the battered woman's self-defense strategy -- Expanding the use of the victimization defense strategy -- Moments of redefinition in law and culture.
- ISBN
- 0813525837 (alk. paper)
- 0813525845 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^98015629^
- OCLC
- 38856139
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library