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Hear Me Now: The Admission Of Expert Testimony On Battered Women's Syndrome—An Evidentiary Approach, Matthew Fine
Hear Me Now: The Admission Of Expert Testimony On Battered Women's Syndrome—An Evidentiary Approach, Matthew Fine
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
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Transcending The Criminal Law's "One Size Fits All" Response To Domestic Violence, Hannah Brenner
Transcending The Criminal Law's "One Size Fits All" Response To Domestic Violence, Hannah Brenner
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Domestic violence is no longer a private matter confined within the four walls of the home. The shift from private to public is connected with marked progress within the legal system, which strives to protect victims and hold batterers accountable through a myriad of specific responses that have ranged from attitudinal and logistical shifts from law enforcement to increased attention within legal education to a general acknowledgment of the impact of domestic violence on individual victims, children, families, and the broader community to the passage of federal and state legislation.
The state legislative landscape has historically centered around a very …