In today's episode, Courtney speaks to Carol Jacobsen, award-winning social documentary artist and Professor Emerita, about women who are convicted of homicide after killing their abusers and how self-defence laws often fail them.
To learn more about Carol Jacobsen and her work, you can buy her book 'For Dear Life: Women's Decriminalization and Human Rights in Focus' from University of Michigan Press here. You can also read her co-authored article, 'Carceral Backlash: The Case for Changing the Course of Women's Homicide Convictions' here.
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