MURDERED: Billy Stafford
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Domestic Violence
Jane's trial was one of the first times people heard about what's known as battered wife sindrum. A battered woman is someone over the age of 18 who is repeatedly subjected to forceful physical and or psychological abuse in an intimate relationship. In 19 79, a clinical psychologist and domestic violence researcher named doctor leonore walker put forward the walker cycle theory of violence. She outlines these phases or patterns of violence that occur really in a cycle. And then after this outburst, there's the immediate reduction of tension, like taking a boiling pot off a burner.
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