Anastasia Jones found that during the mid 20th century women who have killed their partners were not being prosecuted. A few of them who were prosecuted denied the charges and look like a lady at the trial. According to Federal Bureau of Investigation, in 1979, 4.8% of all murders were established by women who killed their partners in self-defense. In a study done by women's prison in Colorado, reported more women had been battered that previously known. Offenses such as forgery, burglary, assault and sale and drugs were engaged by women, as under threat, by the battered claim and bypass another beating (Walker, Thyfault & Browne, 1982). Women in this study, understood that the violence at home could've increased to suicide or homicide.
