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

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An incarcerated woman at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. ((Photo By Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images))

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?”

Related link(s):

Fatal Peril: Unheard Stories from the IPV-to-Prison Pipeline – Report – Stanford Law School

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

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