Comprehensive Outline

Final Project: Stand Your Ground for Battered Women’s Syndrome Case

The proposed project that will be presented for this course, Legal Issues and Social Changes in Forensic Psychology, is outlined to investigate legal cases on issues involving women who are arrested and convicted of killing their abusers. Researching and identifying peer-reviewed articles will require skillful searching for related literature that will provide current and admissible information on this topic. The literature search will include identifying the pertinent databases, recognizing and filtering keywords, ensuring accurate publications, and documenting my findings.

Proposed keywords for this research that were identified are as follows: Battered and Women, Domestic or Violence; Stand Your Ground and Battered Women; Men killed and/or during domestic violence dispute. During the search, the importance will be the top priority of peer-reviewed articles within the last five years (2017-2022) for this research paper. The search publications that will be used for my research paper will be; Walden Library, PubMed, and Google Scholar.

Narrowing down the searches to these keywords to these specific dates will generate articles relating to battered women, articles relating to standing your ground, and battered women. Other keywords will be considered and will be obtained from other related articles derived from Battered Women’s, Domestic Violence, and Stand Your Ground.

APA list of preliminary articles

During my initial research, several articles were discovered, but after further review of their abstracts, titles, introductions, and conclusions, the following articles would provide great supporting information for my Final Project.

Holliday JR, McNiel DE, Morris NP, Faigman DL, Binder RL (2022). The Use of Battered Woman Syndrome in U.S. Criminal Courts. The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Retrieved from https://eds-a-ebscohost-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/eds/pdf

Boxall, H., Dowling, C., & Morgan, A. (2020). Female perpetrated domestic violence: Prevalence of self-defensive and retaliatory violence. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice. Retrieved from https://eds-a-ebscohost-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/eds/pdf