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Women and Prisons

Walker, Lenore E. Terrifying Love: Why Battered Women Kill and How Society Responds. Harper Perennial, 1989.

Stories and analysis of women who kill in self-defense and their legal struggles by Lenore E. Walker, Executive Director of the Domestic Violence Institute, professor of psychology at University of Denver.

August 20, 2003December 14, 2012

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