비대면상황에서의 피학대자의 학대자 살해행위와 정당방위의 성립가능성 - 미국의 매 맞는 여성 기준의 도입가능성 및 그에 대한 대안의 검토 -
Battered Women, Domestic Violence and Non-Confrontational Self-Defense
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Is a battered woman justified via self-defense if she kills her abuser in a non-confrontational situation? Some argue that the battered women standard developed in the U.S. should be applied when a claim of self-defense is raised by a woman who killed her tormentor in non-beating situation. Advocates of the battered woman standard say that a reasonable woman with BWS (battered woman syndrome) would believe that the abuser represents an immediate threat to her life even in non-confrontational circumstances, so a battered woman is justified under self-defense law in killing her sleeping abuser. In the Korean criminal law, the rightness of an act is strictly distinguished from the personal culpability of an actor, so the termination of a life of a man cannot be justified merely on the fact that she who commits a homicide suffers from BWS. The claim of BWS only may be able to excuse a defendant’s criminal culpability. As a result of the principle of the state's monopoly of violence, the right of self-defense can be legitimately exercised only if the attack is imminent such that it cannot be prevented by those authorized to do so. In other words, the imminence requirement in self-defense should be substantially broadened and anticipatory self-defense should be allowed in a person to person context when one cannot expect that the future threat would be able to be stopped or prevented by the state and there is no other way left to protect himself from the anticipated threat.
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Is a battered woman justified via self-defense if she kills her abuser in a non-confrontational situation? Some argue that the battered women standard developed in the U.S. should be applied when a claim of self-defense is raised by a woman who killed her tormentor in non-beating situation. Advocates of the battered woman standard say that a reasonable woman with BWS (battered woman syndrome) would believe that the abuser represents an immediate threat to her life even in non-confrontational circumstances, so a battered woman is justified under self-defense law in killing her sleeping abuser. In the Korean criminal law, the rightness of an act is strictly distinguished from the personal culpability of an actor, so the termination of a life of a man cannot be justified merely on the fact that she who commits a homicide suffers from BWS. The claim of BWS only may be able to excuse a defendant’s criminal culpability. As a result of the principle of the state's monopoly of violence, the right of self-defense can be legitimately exercised only if the attack is imminent such that it cannot be prevented by those authorized to do so. In other words, the imminence requirement in self-defense should be substantially broadened and anticipatory self-defense should be allowed in a person to person context when one cannot expect that the future threat would be able to be stopped or prevented by the state and there is no other way left to protect himself from the anticipated threat.
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