Download or read book Self-Defense and Battered Women Who Kill written by Robbin S. Ogle and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that the battering relationship is properly understood as a long-term homicidal process. The authors posit a social interaction perspective for understanding the forces that work toward maintaining the battering relationship and escalating it to a homicidal end.