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Terrifying Love

Why Battered Women Kill and How Society Responds

by Lenore E. Walker

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A pioneer in the study of battered women analyzes, based on case histories, the complex forces that drive some abused women to murder and discusses the legal and emotional aftermath of the killing.

Abused womenForensic psychologyJustifiable homicidePsychologyMarital violenceForensic PsychiatryHomicideSpouse Abuse