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Bibliography of Law and Public Policy

Corcos, Christine A., The Battered Woman Defense

Coppolo, George, Battered Woman’s Syndrome Defense (Hartford, CT: Connecticut General Assembly, Office of Legislative Research, 1993). Published January 14, 1993.

Dershowitz, Alan, The Abuse Excuse (

McKusick, Cynthia M., Individual Jurors’ Decisions in a Simulated Trial of a Battered Woman Who Killed Her Husband: Effects of Expert Testimony on Juror’s Verdicts and Their Beliefs About Battered Women (Master’s thesis, Mansfield University, 1998).

Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (6th : 1995 : Topeka, Kan.), Sixth Annual Meeting, 1995. Includes Mules' and madonnas' racial imagery and the battered woman's syndrome / Linda L. Ammons -- Conflict waivers in entertainment representations : or straw shack? / John A. Walton -- Rural Mexican Americans and 'free trade' / Guadalupe Reys Luna -- The development of affirmative action jurisprudence / Leland Ware -- Mixed motives and after acquired evidence : second cousins result in the inevitable inadequate remedy / Leona S. Green --Privatization of municipal services : anathema to the body  politic? / Shirley L. Mays -- The elephant and the four blind men  : the Burger Court and its federal tax decisions / Daniel M. Schneider and Beverly I. Moran.

Philibert-Ortega, Gena Christine, Battered Women Who Kill: Perspectives of Prosecutors Who Have Tried "Burning Bed" Cases (Master’s thesis, California State University, San Bernarndino, 1993).

Seattle, Washington, City Attorney, Battered Women’s Project: City Attorney’s Office: Five-Year Statistical Summary (Seattle, WA: The Office, 1984).

Violence against women (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1994)(Current Controversies). Inlcudes What causes violence against women? -- What causes rape? -- Can reforms in the criminal justice system decrease violence against women? -- Does pornography promote violence against women? -- How can violence against women be reduced? -- How widespread is the problem of rape? -- Is the "battered woman's syndrome" a legitimate defense?

Walker,  Lenore E., The Battered Woman Syndrome (1984)(Springer Series; 6).

Wilson, James Q., Moral Judgment: Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System? (1998).

PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL

ACLU Freedom Network. Women's Rights

Seneca Falls   Declaration of Sentiments (1848)

Report of the Women's Rights Convention

Seneca Falls Convention: The Beginning of Women's RIghts

Signers of the Declaration of Sentiments

United States. Department of State. International Information Programs. Women's Rights 1848 to the Present