Talk:Abuse defense

Possible POV
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)

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


 * 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)
 * 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)

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)

Defense vs excuse
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)