Talk:Abuse defense

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A fact from Abuse defense appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 April 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that, after chopping off her husband's penis, Lorena Bobbitt won her trial by employing the abuse defense?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/April.

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Possible POV[edit]

This page certainly has some POV -- it's almost exclusively Dershowitz's views on the subject. He's a pretty bright guy and a good legal scholar, but this article is far more critical than it ought to be. I've got finals in a few weeks, so I can't fix it for a while. Patrick R (talk) 06:09, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This page seems to me to have some POV in it - maybe a lawyer or law student could review the way it is written? -Aion 21:43, 3 Aug 2003 (UTC)

US-only[edit]

This article describes only the US law. Is there something similar in other countries? Lotygolas Ozols (talk) 20:05, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The sources I looked at all seem to describe it only within the context of the United States. If you can find stuff about the abuse defense being used in other countries, I would encourage you to add it to the article. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 20:45, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I would have done this without encouragement. However it is quite possible it is called differently elsewhere, so that google search by a layman like me is useless. (It does require a certain domein expertise even to use proper search terms.) Lotygolas Ozols (talk) 21:19, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In the rest of anglo-law I think it's usually called battered women syndrome and the battered women's defence. Patrick R (talk) 06:06, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Defense vs excuse[edit]

I added a bit of hair splitting: the latter term is a synonym with a critical, even derogatory flair. Lotygolas Ozols (talk) 22:12, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]