What Happened When Women Began Looking to the Criminal Justice

What happened when women began looking to the criminal justice system for safety and protection from domestic violence?

A) Juries took sympathetic views of battered women, and public awareness of domestic violence and sympathy increased.
B) Legal protections arose to ensure that domestic abuse became a felony in most states.
C) They learned that institutional practices and practitioners implicated women in their own victimization and excused violent partners.
D) Self-defense courses for women arose in urban areas after the courts turned battered women away.