Battered Womans Syndrome
Crime Causation How the Legal System will Deal with “Battered Woman’s Syndrome” in the Future “Battered Woman’s Syndrome” was defined in 1984 partly as a theory of learned helplessness. ... 1252 the “Battered Woman’s Testomony Act of 1992” was signed into Public Law No. ... Stories of horrors such as these have been lurking in the past for decades but nobody understood or had a technical name for this syndrome. The historical Steinburg murder of a six year old child was a classical example of this syndrome. ... Steinburg beat her into submission and this child almost daily for her entire life and finally to her death, because of this syndrome.