Recommended Citation
Annalie Buscarino,
From One Prison to Another: The Inordinate Criminalization of Women Who Kill Abusive Partners and a Proposed U.N. Response,
57 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L.
513
(2025)
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/jil/vol57/iss1/16
Abstract
Paradoxically, criminal justice systems around the world punish women who kill abusive partners with inordinate sentences despite explicitly recognizing the victimization that led them to homicide. This Note examines how universally entrenched gender stereotypes lead to such overcriminalization and amount to a violation of women’s rights to equality before the law. This Note then proposes a U.N. resolution offering guidelines for criminal justice systems to craft appropriate judicial responses to women’s survival strategies.