Rethinking Imminence: Self-Defense and Coercive Control in Domestic Violence
<p style="margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm">Domestic-violence self-defense cases reveal a persistent structural mismatch in American criminal law. Doctrinal elements designed for sudden, episodic confrontations—particularly imminence, necessity, and objective reasonableness—often fail to capture the lived
Authors
- Ziyue Wu
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Published
- 2026-03-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.29013/ejhss-26-2-14-20
- Primary Topic
- War, Ethics, and Justification
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00