Title

Battering, Forgiveness and Redemption

Authors

Brenda V. Smith, American University Washington College of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2003

Abstract

While there has been some acknowledgement that battered women kill, there has been less acceptance that battered women may have been arrested for some other offense. Can those fallible women be “forgiven” for their offenses and allowed to receive the community affirmation, validation, social services, and protection that other battered women receive? This Article focuses on a topic that, though discussed, has frequently been dismissed in the domestic violence discourse; battered women’s forgiveness of their batterers and battered women’s process of forgiving themselves for participating in the relationship.

Comments

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law (ISSN 1557-3753)

Volume 11, Issue 2, pg 921-962

Recommended Citation

Battering, Forgiveness and Redemption, 11 Am. Un. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 921, 2003.