Making excuses: betrayed men and battered women get away with murder.

National Review | November 21, 1994| | Copyright

What do you call it when a woman kills her spouse? If the husband had a history of abusing and intimidating her, the homicide may be considered an expression of "battered-woman syndrome." Because of repeated abuse, the theory goes, the battered woman has low self-esteem. Depressed and unmotivated, she is unable to leave her husband. She comes to believe that the only way of extricating herself is to maim or kill him. Even though she is not in immediate danger at the time she strikes back (if she were, she could plead self-defense), promoters of battered-woman syndrome argue ...

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