Landmark Stanford Study Asks ‘When Do Women Have the Right to Kill in Self-Defense?’

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A landmark Stanford Law School study of women incarcerated in California prisons finds the vast majority of those convicted of killing their partner experienced domestic abuse. We’ll talk with journalist and author Rachel Louise Snyder — who partnered with Stanford for the study — about the stories she heard, and why laws governing self-defense fail victims of intimate partner violence. Snyder’s new opinion piece in the New York Times is “When Do Women Have the Right to Kill in Self-Defense?” Guests: Rachel Louise Snyder, professor of literature and journalism, American University - contributing Opinion writer, The New York Times; author, “No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us" and “Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir" Debbie Mukamal, executive director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Stanford Law School Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.1	A Stanford study of women incarcerated in California prisons finds the vast majority of women convicted of killing a partner experienced violence at the hands of that partner. More than 80% of study
1:19.1	participants, leading Stanford researchers and journalist Rachel Louise Snyder to wonder who's
1:25.0	allowed to kill in the name of self-defense? And under what circumstances?
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