Trials of battered women who kill: The impact of alternative forms of expert evidence

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 167-187

  Schuller, Regina A ^a   Hastings, Patricia A ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; CRIMINAL LAW; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPERT WITNESS; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 0029883560     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01499353     Document Type: Article

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