For the first time, a study of the ways in which judges respond to abused women.

In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of “battered woman syndrome” was admissible in establishing self-

In this latest edition of her groundbreaking book, Dr. Lenore Walker has provided a thorough update to her original findings in the field of domestic abuse. Eac

The use of the battered woman syndrome defense in the courts is controversial, particularly when women turn to homicide in response to a partner's abuse. Schola

Women’s rights advocates in the United States have long argued that violence against women denies women equality and citizenship, but it took a movement of fe