Criminalized Survivors

  • The Connection Between Strangulation Lethality and Survivors Who Kill Their Abusive Partners

    Texas Council on Family Violence
    Honoring Texas Victims Report

    (2021)

  • When Community-Based Advocates Testify as Experts: Understanding and Explaining Trauma and its Effects

    Linda Barnard and Andrea L. Bible
    National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women

    (December 2014)

  • The Bogus Murder Confession That Changed How I Investigate Family Violence

    Staley Heatly
    The Marshall Project

    (June 6, 2016)

  • Improving Law Enforcement Response to Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence by Identifying and Preventing Gender Bias

    U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women

    (2022)

  • Predominant Aggressor or Self-Defense? Making Accurate Determinations on Domestic Violence Calls

    Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support

    (January 11, 2022)

  • Defending Self-Defense: A Call to Action

    Survived & Punished with Project NIA and The UCLA Center for the Study of Women

    (March 2022)

  • Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessments & Models

    Domestic Violence Resource for Increasing Safety and Connection

  • Danger Assessment

    Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

  • Why Do Women Use Force or Violence in Intimate Partner Relationships?

    National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

  • Basic Propositions: Memory

    Battered Women’s Justice Project

    (March 2024)

  • Women Serve Longer Prison Sentences After Killing Abusers

    Amanda Kippert
    DomesticShelters.org

    (June 22, 2020)

  • The Garden: After Planting Seeds of Abuse, Did George Malone Reap What He Sowed?

    Hood County News

    (January 28, 2017)

  • Women Count USA: Femicide Accountability Project

    Women Count USA

  • Most Murder-Suicide Victims are Women Shot and Killed by Their Male Intimate Partners

    Violence Policy Center

    (October 30, 2023)

  • Podcast: Unveiling the Complexities of Self-Defense Claims in Domestic Violence Cases

    Journey of a Survivor: Part 3
    Genesis The Podcast

    (2023)

  • Kelsey's Published Articles

    See Kelsey’s publications below

  • Roll Call Training (On-Demand)

    Includes “Determining Predominant Aggressor and Self-Defense”
    Institute for Coordinated Community Response

  • National Defense Center for Criminalized Survivors

    Formerly the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women, a program of BWJP

  • Power and Control Wheel

    Domestic Abuse Intervention Project

  • Identify Abuse

    National Domestic Violence Hotline

  • Gender-Based Violence and Death Row in the U.S.: Five Facts & Two Stories

    American Bar Association

    (January 17, 2025)

  • 3 Questions: When Women Kill Their Abusers

    Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer and Rachel Louise Snyder
    New York Times

    (September 10, 2024)