Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on trial transcripts, this book tells the stories of ten battered women who killed their male partners and one who did not, revealing why women don’t “just leave” and the serious barriers to achieving acquittal.
Trade ReviewIn Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts, Sheehy offers a compelling and startling account of the criminal justice system’s failure to protect women from the men who batter them. She begins the book by situating the issue in its historical legal context. Making the work accessible to an audience much broader than just those well-versed in criminal law, Sheehy provides the reader with ample background to understand the legal context in Canada both prior to and in the years following the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1990 recognition of battered women syndrome in R. v Lavallee.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 Angelique Lyn Lavallee
2 Bonnie Mooney
3 Kimberley Kondejewski
4 Gladys Heavenfire and Doreen Sorenson
5 Donelda Kay, Denise Robin Rain, and Jamie Gladue
6 Lilian Getkate
7 Margaret Ann Malott and Rita Graveline
Conclusion
Appendix; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
