The abuse defense is a criminal law defense in which the defendant argues that a prior history of abuse justifies violent retaliation. While the term...

In 2004, President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld apologized for the Abu Ghraib abuses. The war on terror, also known as the Global...

Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of a person or thing, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. Abuse can come in many forms, such as: physical...

Child abuse (also called child endangerment or child maltreatment) is physical, sexual, emotional and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child...

Domestic violence is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation. Domestic violence is often used...

There have been many cases of sexual abuse of children by priests, nuns, and other members of religious life in the Catholic Church. In the late 20th...

the basis for the battered woman legal defense that has been used in cases of physically and psychologically abused women who have killed their male partners...

Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation...

Psychological abuse, often known as emotional abuse or mental abuse or psychological violence, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting...

cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United...

was eventually released. Her case helped garner legitimacy for the abuse defense, a concept virtually unknown at the time in criminal cases. The case...

trial, the defense argued that the brothers killed their parents in self-defense after years of alleged sexual, emotional, and physical abuse. The prosecution...

abbreviated as CP, also called child porn, or kiddie porn and child sexual abuse material known by the acronym CSAM, underscoring that children can not be...

Farrow and director Woody Allen, he has come to the defense of his father against a sexual abuse allegation. Moses Amadeus Farrow was born in South Korea...

(in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021) to tackle the rough sex defence. According to American jurist George Buzash: The "rough sex" defense to the charge of...

the circumstances. As an excuse defense, the urban survival syndrome is presented as a version of the abuse defense. Here an individual experiencing...

corrections officer who was court-martialed for prisoner abuse after the 2003–2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. Along with other soldiers of his Army Reserve...

(Spring 1998). "Survival of the Common Law Abuse of Process Tort in the Face of a Noerr-Pennington Defense". University of Chicago Law Review. 65 (2)...

petition was launched reporting perceived child abuse and neglect. The Franke parents posted in defense of the discipline, saying the incidents had been...

Poverty pushes some kids towards paid sex abuse in the Philippines". CNA. July 9, 2019. "The Fantasy Defense". CBS Evening News. May 24, 2000. Retrieved...

The Turpin case involved the abuse of children and dependent adults by their biological parents, David and Louise Turpin of Perris, California, U.S. The...

March 22, 2017) was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping...

Jackson's death, one of the defense witnesses, Wade Robson, changed his position and filed a lawsuit, saying he had been abused by Jackson. In 1993, Jackson...

fabricated the abuse allegations to gain sole custody. Ashley and her defense attorney Neil Taylor argued that she did it in self-defense. Attorney Taylor...

and Erik allege that they killed José in self-defense after years of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. This marks the first series regular role for...

prevent and detect fraud and abuse in, such programs and operations. Provide a means for keeping the Secretary of Defense and the Congress fully and currently...

Gertrude Baniszewski testified in her own defense. She denied any responsibility for Likens's prolonged abuse, torment, and ultimate death, claiming her...

American R&B singer R. Kelly has faced repeated accusations of sexual abuse for incidents dating from 1991 to 2018 and has been the subject of a long-term...

The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) is an American nonprofit anti-sexual assault organization, the largest in the United States. RAINN operates...

but no "major cases of fraud or abuse." Following the December 2018 resignation of Jim Mattis as secretary of defense, deputy secretary Patrick Shanahan...