The Role of Defendant Gender and PTSD Diagnosis in a Battered Spouse Case.

ABSTRACT: A quarter of women and 11% of men report being survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) during their lifetimes in the United States. Despite being victims themselves, people who kill their IPV abuser can still be subject to criminal proceedings. Given this complexity, the law has employed battered spouse syndrome (BSS) as a tool used in some jurisdictions to support a claim that an IPV survivor killed in self-defense. A defendant who is attempting to claim self-defense using BSS may introduce testimony of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, a diagnosis of PTSD can pose problems in admission during litigation as the occurrence of a traumatic event is often what is being decided. The present study examined how college students, living on the U.S.-México border, perceive survi

SUBMITTER: Adair-Russell R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11800720 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature