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Shifting The Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense
Saundra D. Westervelt
Shifting The Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense
Saundra D. Westervelt
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.
256 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 1, 1998 |
ISBN13 | 9780813525846 |
Publishers | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 208 |
Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 15 mm · 272 g |
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