What Next | Why Women Kill

A survey of people incarcerated in California found that 20 percent
of women in for homicide had killed their abusive partners. How
have self-defense laws failed women in abusive relationships—and
how can they be reformed to save lives? Guest: Rachel Louise
Snyder, journalist, author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t
Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, and professor at American
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