• Acknowledgments • Blurred Boundaries and the Complexities of Experience • Irreconcilable Differences: Women’s Encounters with the Criminal Processing System • Negotiating Surreality • The Social Reproduction of Women’s Pain • Demonic Angels?: Violence against Abusers
• Angelic Demons?: Crimes of Complicity • Epilogue • appendixes • Pseudonym, Race/Ethnicity, Charges, Relationship to Victim(s), and Role in Offense • Abuse of Drugs and Alcohol • Women Who Killed Their Husbands/Partners
• Context of Violence against Husbands/Partners • Prior Police Involvement, Children, Work, Abused as Child, and Parental Absence
• Women Who Committed Crimes against Others • A Note on Method • Notes
• References • Index