The Perfect Victim
(2012)
January 1, 2012
(US)
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Crime, Documentary
• 82m
Overview
For over thirty years, three women have languished in Missouri State prison under unjust sentences for killing their abusive husbands. Denied the opportunity to enter the abuse into evidence, each of the women represents a system broken by outdated and media-sensationalized stereotypes. When a greater understanding of the "battered" syndrome change legal practices in 2000, Missouri's Governor crafts a new law demanding the parole board reevaluate each woman's case.
Keywords
homicide
missouri
women's prison
domestic abuse
female prisoner
domestic violence
physical abuse
life sentence
stereotype
abusive husband
criminal justice
mental abuse
murder of husband
battered women
battered wife syndrome
battered woman syndrome
clemency
double standard
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
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