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Judicial Acceptance of The Battered Woman Syndrome

Robert T. Sigler

University of Alabama

Chadwick L. Shook

University of Alabama

The Battered Woman Defense has been gaining acceptance in recent years. This note reviews the legal theory and issues relating to the use of the defense and presents the results of a Battered Woman Defense. While the judges are willing to admit expert testimony on the Battered Woman Defense, older and more experienced the judges were the less receptive to the use of the Battered Woman Syndrome as a defense and the more cases the judges have heard the less likely they were to consider traumat ic psychological abuse as a mitigating factor in sentencing.

Criminal Justice Policy Review, Vol. 8, No. 4, 365-382 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/088740349700800403
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