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