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An analysis of the development, use and expansion of the victimization defence strategy - the ""abuse excuse"". It takes the use of this, particularly during the 1970s and early 1980s, as an indicator of broad social change in cultural understandings of victimization, responsibility and womanhood.

Table of Contents
Responsibility and the culture of victimization
Responsibility under the law
Deprivation, brainwashing, and battering : the beginnings of a victim-based strategy
Extralegal factors and the success of the battered woman's self-defense strategy
Expanding the use of the victimization defense strategy
Moments of redefinition in law and culture

Shifting the Blame How Victimization Became a

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/1998
      ISBN13: 9780813525846, 978-0813525846
      ISBN10: 0813525845

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An analysis of the development, use and expansion of the victimization defence strategy - the ""abuse excuse"". It takes the use of this, particularly during the 1970s and early 1980s, as an indicator of broad social change in cultural understandings of victimization, responsibility and womanhood.

      Table of Contents
      Responsibility and the culture of victimization
      Responsibility under the law
      Deprivation, brainwashing, and battering : the beginnings of a victim-based strategy
      Extralegal factors and the success of the battered woman's self-defense strategy
      Expanding the use of the victimization defense strategy
      Moments of redefinition in law and culture

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