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Overviews and ramifications of case law on battered woman syndrome (Ibn-Tamis, Nixon) and battered child syndrome (Jahnke, Nemeth) criminal defenses, and how laws concerning prevention of forecasted criminal behavior (Tarasoff, Thompson v. Alameda, Brady v. Hopper). Bibliography lists 10 sources, including cases. jvBatter.rtf
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and battered child syndrome criminal defenses, and laws concerning the prevention of forecasted criminal behavior. Battered Women Syndrome and Battered Child
Syndrome Battered woman syndrome has been used as a defense against criminal charges in cases where a woman has killed her spouse or
significant other in order to protect herself or prevent herself from being killed by the abusive person. Until 1979, the term "battered woman syndrome" had not been used as a
legal defense, although it had been listed in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a publication of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) with the intent to define
mental illnesses and syndromes, for years prior to the definitive case that allowed the term as a legitimate legal defense (Duncan, 1996, 753).
The definitive case was Ibn-Tamas v. United States, 407 A.2d 626, 634-35 (D.C. 1979), which allowed the defense of "battered woman syndrome" (BWS) as a psychological defense as it
relates to post-traumatic stress syndrome. It was allowed not allowed in the district court, but was allowed on appeal for the express purpose of allowing the expert testimony of Dr.
Lenore Walker which outlined the relationship between the defendants (Mrs. Ibn-Tamas) behavior and the characteristics of a "battered woman" (supra. at 626, 631).
The reason the court allowed the testimony to define the syndrome was to enhance Mrs. Ibn-Tamas credibility to the jury when it began to look at the evidence in
support of Mrs. Ibn-Tamass claim of self-defense against an abusive husband. The expert testimony cleared the path for physical evidence and further testimony in support of the claim that Mrs.
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