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The Legal Defense for Battered Women

To support this assertion, we must first no little more about what BWS is. BWS as a defense was first introduced in court by attor...

Battered Child and Battered Woman Syndrome Legal Overview

Lenore Walker which outlined the relationship between the defendants (Mrs. Ibn-Tamas) behavior and the characteristics of a "batte...

Canada's Legal System and How the Female Legal Personality Has Evolved

their exclusion from society, because since they were not accorded legal personalities, this meant "women were not included in the...

A Review of Battered Women in the Courtroom by James Ptacek

This 5 page essay explores the legal complications faced by a woman litigating abuse. 1 source....

Battered Child Syndrome in America

is socioeconomic status. They point to evidence that there is a higher prevalence of abuse and a greater use of punishment in low...

Canadian Social Welfare and Abused Women

In seven pages this paper examines Britain's Poor Laws in this consideration of Canada's battered women's movement, its origins an...

Shelters for Battered Women

Shelters for women who have been abused is the focus of this paper as is domestic violence in a general sense. How battered women ...

The Psychological Experience of the Battered Woman

The fact that men who beat women have problems is discussed in depth as this paper explores the psychological implications for bat...

Social Problems Experienced by Battered Women

There are social pressures and prejudices which battered women face. In this twenty page research paper that includes fourteen bib...

Domestic Violence Advocacy

example of domestic abuse among the wealthy and prominent. Theres a myth that domestic violence is more common in the middle and l...

The Factors Reducing Battered Women's Independence

a part of the study. In the pretest data collection, 64 experimental and 53 comparison group participants were identified. In th...

The Psychology of Battered Women's Syndrome

The syndrome is discussed both as a psychological problem and a legal defense. The prevalence of this condition is discussed in te...

Battered Women's Syndrome from a Multidisciplinary Perspective

This literature review consists of twenty five pages and explores abuse from psychological, economic, physical, and historical per...

Richard Hall's Patriots in Disguise

In three pages this paper discusses women in Civil War combat within the context of Hall's book and examines women's significant r...

Do Violent Video Games Encourage Violence Among Children

This paper reviews author Scott Shackford's defense of violent video games as published in the article Imaginary Guns Don't Kill P...

Philosophy's Role and Defense of Socrates in Apology by Plato

In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...

Women's Special Interest Groups in Canada

both an arduous and complicated process by which change occurs at a slow pace - even slower when the special interest group is sup...

Research on Domestic Abuse of Women

Samaritan Houses Family Empowerment Program. Section I: Introduction Programs designed to improve the lives of women who have ...

FreshStart for Women

children. Domestic Violence in America Domestic violence appears to be increasing. Whether that is actually the case is no...

Assessing a Non Profit Making Organization

resources and staffing, which are key to the ability of the organization to reach its goals. Drucker (2006) looks at the way an ...

Battered Women Policy Analysis

at which point ideals began to shift toward the notion of male superiority. Once the ideal fully developed, the belief of male su...

Walker's Battered Women Syndrome and the Frye Rule

be categorised as admissible once it is seen as "generally acceptable" in its field. As Grossman points out, however, since the co...

Women and Domestic Violence

in fact, the womans actions have little to do with the "psychology of the batterer" (Haynes PG). The typical male abuser is one wh...

Misogyny and Canada

In fifteen pages this paper argues that Canada is not misogynous in a consideration of such issues as gender comparisons regarding...

Naturalistic Realism as Defended by Aristotle

In four pages Book I of Aristotle's Politics is used as the philosopher's 'natural' realism defense especially pertaining to the n...

Women's Studies and 'In Defence of Elitism' by William A. Henry

and every person. To say that women had to fight for their existence within a patriarchal world would be a gross understate...

Colonial Women’s Public Role and Legal Status

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

Negligent Defenses, Legal Obligation, Injury Risks, Tort Liability, and Knowledge

In ten pages tort law is considered in an overview of knowledge as it involves sports negligence defenses with risks of injury, le...

Aristotle's Legal Defense of a Guilty Man

and then define the perfect solution to problems that might arise. Aristotle claimed that: "I have gained this from philosophy: I ...

Benefits of Insanity as a Legal Defense

insanity. Of course, if they do avoid a criminal sentence, they are often locked up in an institution for a very long period. Whil...