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Battered Wives Who Kill: Double Standard Out of Court, Single Standard In?

Battered Wives Who Kill: Double Standard Out of Court, Single Standard In? Law and Human Behavior. VoL 2, No. 2, 1978 Case~Comment Battered Wives Who Kill Double Standard Out of Court, Single Standard In? INTRODUCTION Attention is currently focusing on a hitherto little-acknowledged social problem in our culture m wife-abuse? The problem is one of enormous dimension, 2 which until re- cently has been deliberately ignored s or condoned 4 both by our society 5 and by the ~D. Martin, Battered Wives 8 (1970). See also R. Leavy, Wife-Beating, The Silent Crisis (1974), E. Pizzey, Scream Quietly or the Neighbors Will Hear (1977), and R. Gelles, The Violent Home (1972). Quite recently, the media have reported that the incidence and reality of husband-batterings are equally grievous, However, according to Dr. Suzanne Steinmetz, author of some of the better known studies on the subject, the media have "synthesized the data wrongly." Steinmetz points out that the dynamics in the two situations are distinctly different. Most especially, she emphasizes that the husband- wife batterings do not occur in the same family. They are, therefore, not reciprocal, and it should not be assumed that the battering of one precipitates the battering of the other spouse. Regarding the differing dynamics, Steinmetz explains that the battering http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Law and Human Behavior American Psychological Association

Battered Wives Who Kill: Double Standard Out of Court, Single Standard In?

Fiora-Gormally, Nancy
Law and Human Behavior , Volume 2 (2): 33 – Jun 1, 1978
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Copyright © 1978 American Psychological Association
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10.1007/BF01040388
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Law and Human Behavior. VoL 2, No. 2, 1978 Case~Comment Battered Wives Who Kill Double Standard Out of Court, Single Standard In? INTRODUCTION Attention is currently focusing on a hitherto little-acknowledged social problem in our culture m wife-abuse? The problem is one of enormous dimension, 2 which until re- cently has been deliberately ignored s or condoned 4 both by our society 5 and by the ~D. Martin, Battered Wives 8 (1970). See also R. Leavy, Wife-Beating, The Silent Crisis (1974), E. Pizzey, Scream Quietly or the Neighbors Will Hear (1977), and R. Gelles, The Violent Home (1972). Quite recently, the media have reported that the incidence and reality of husband-batterings are equally grievous, However, according to Dr. Suzanne Steinmetz, author of some of the better known studies on the subject, the media have "synthesized the data wrongly." Steinmetz points out that the dynamics in the two situations are distinctly different. Most especially, she emphasizes that the husband- wife batterings do not occur in the same family. They are, therefore, not reciprocal, and it should not be assumed that the battering of one precipitates the battering of the other spouse. Regarding the differing dynamics, Steinmetz explains that the battering

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Published: Jun 1, 1978

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