“…For example, in cases of child sexual assault women are typically more provictim than are men, rendering more guilty verdicts and rating the alleged child victim as more believable than do men (e.g., Bottoms & Goodman, 1994;Haegerich & Bottoms, 2000;Hodell et al, 2009). Although Cheyne and Dennison (2005) found no impact of mock juror gender in an investigation of battered women who kill, other research has found reverse effects of mock juror gender-women tend to be more prodefense in these cases (Follingstad et al, 1997;Kasian et al, 1993;Russell & Melillo, 2006;Schuller, Smith, & Olson, 1994;Terrance et al, 2000). In cases in which battered women kill their abusers, the line between perpetrator and victim becomes less clear, as the woman may be considered a victim of domestic violence with the abuser as the perpetrator, but in the case at hand, the woman is the defendant and the abuser is the victim of homicide.…”