SELECTED RESOURCES
Resources shared at A Book Discussion, Policy Roundtable, and Call to Action on October 21, 2026, with Justine van der Leun, author of Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival. Presented by BraunHagey & Borden LLP, the Criminal Law & Justice Center at Berkeley Law, and the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.
READING LIST
- Designing Justice: Essential Elements of Survivor Justice Laws Georgetown Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity, 2026
- Addressing the Peril: Seeking Better Legal Outcomes for Criminalized Survivors Stanford Criminal Justice Center, September 2025
- Staff Memorandum 2025-07: Survivors of Intimate-Partner Violence as Criminal Defendants California Committee on Revision of the Penal Code, May 2025 (PDF)
- Fatal Peril: Unheard Stories from the IPV-to-Prison Pipeline and Other Voices Touched by Violence Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Summer 2024
- Great Weight: A Review of California Board of Parole Hearings Transcripts to Assess Frequency and Consideration of Intimate Partner Violence among Women Convicted of Homicide Offenses Stanford Criminal Justice Center, June 2023 (PDF)
- Defending Self-Defense: A Call to Action Survived & Punished, with Project Nia and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, March 2022 (PDF)
- Resources & Publications Survivors Justice Project
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