Battered Women Who Kill Their Abusers: An Examination of Commonsense Notions, Cognitions, and Judgments

Autor/inn/en	Huss, Matthew T.; Tomkins, Alan J.; Garbin, Calvin P.; Schopp, Robert F.; Kilian, Allen
Titel	Battered Women Who Kill Their Abusers: An Examination of Commonsense Notions, Cognitions, and Judgments
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 21 (2006) 8, S.1063-1080 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260506290206
Schlagwörter	Family Violence; Crime; Court Litigation; Undergraduate Students; Females; Schemata (Cognition); Victims of Crime; Decision Making; Multidimensional Scaling; Cognitive Structures; Individual Differences; Justice; Psychological Patterns; Law Enforcement; Emotional Response; Homicide + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Rechtsstreit; Weibliches Geschlecht; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Mehrdimensionale Analysis; Cognitive structure; Kognitive Struktur; Individueller Unterschied; Gerechtigkeit; Gesetzesvollzug; Emotionales Verhalten; Mord
Abstract	It has been argued that battered women who kill their abusers represent a special class of defendants being unfairly treated in the legal system. As a result, commentators have argued for reforms to permit the judicial system to respond more fairly. Researchers have investigated the influences of these prescribed legal modifications and the possible influence of various demographic and psychological factors on legal reforms. However, social scientists have not yet asked some fundamental, psychological questions. Is the law consistent with what society believes is right and just? Is there a commonsense notion of justice in these cases? What factors constitute cognitive decision rules and influence judgments in cases of battered women who kill their abusers? This study uses a basic, psychological method to identify psychological factors that are important in judgments regarding battered women who kill and to better understand commonsense notions of justice in these cases. (Contains 2 tables and 3 figures.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10