www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/women-who-kill
Women Who Kill: How The State Criminalises Women We Might Otherwise Be Burying
This report is the culmination of a four year research study that explores the criminal justice response to women who kill abusive men. Through in-depth interviews with some key practitioners in the criminal justice system, and most crucially with women themselves, our research explores the extent to which the law itself, and the way the law is applied, prevent women accessing justice.
A quote from Vera Baird says it all.
#womenwhokill @VeraBaird says the law offers more protection for people who kill when protecting their home from burglars than women victims of men's violence who kill in self defence to protect their own bodies.
I'm so in awe of the CWJ