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Forensic Evaluations of Battered Women Defendants: Relevant Data to be Applied to Elements of Self-Defense
Abstract
There has been no model of the relevant information that forensic experts should collect from battered women defendants for testifying in court in support of self-defense claims. This article proposes such a model, addressing the mental state of battered women at the time they killed their partners. Many killings of partners by battered women should be considered appropriate for self-defense claims, even when the fact situations do not appear to fit “classic” self-defense criteria. Forensic experts have an important role in bringing jurors to an understanding of how many battered womens' actions resulting in the death of a partner actually fit self-defense laws by explaining the fit between the facts of the case and the typical criteria of self-defense.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 1996
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0962-1849(96)80009-6
Repository Citation
Follingstad, Diane R., "Forensic Evaluations of Battered Women Defendants: Relevant Data to be Applied to Elements of Self-Defense" (1996). CRVAW Faculty Journal Articles. 238.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/crvaw_facpub/238
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Applied and Preventive Psychology, v. 5, issue 3, p. 165–178.
Dr. Diane Follingstad had not been a faculty member of the University of Kentucky at the time of publication.