Convicted Survivors: The Imprisonment of Battered Women Who Kill

Explores the experiences of women imprisoned for killing their male abusers and their treatment by the criminal justice system.

When a woman survives a deadly assault by her male abuser by using lethal self-defense, she often faces a punitive criminal justice system-one that largely failed to respond to her earlier calls for help. In this book, Elizabeth Dermody Leonard examines the lives and experiences of more than forty women in California who are serving lengthy prison sentences for kill...