TY  - ADVS
AU  - Higgins,Robert
AU  - Díaz-Balart,José
ED  - CBS News
ED  - Films for the Humanities (Firm)
TI  - Domestic violence in America: battered women 
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Films for the Humanities & Sciences
KW  - Family violence
KW  - United States
KW  - Abused women
KW  - Abused wives
KW  - Battered woman syndrome
KW  - Marital violence
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Abusive men
KW  - Mortality
KW  - Justifiable homicide
N1  - vol.1; Battered women : under seige -; vol. 2; Battered women : fighting back; Producer, Robert Higgins ; music, Bob Sakayama; Host, Jose Diaz-Balart; Segment originally aired on the CBS Television Network as episode of Against the Law on July 17, 1991
N2  - When a woman kills a man who beats her, is it murder? Or is it justice? This program examines the legality of when,ever, a victim of domestic violence is justified in killing her abuser. The Jane Abbott and Linda Logan cases assess the courtroom admissibility of evidence of battering, while the high-profile Lorena Bobbitt case and others raise the question of whether the plea of battered  woman syndrome can be manipulated into a license to maim--or kill
ER  -