UB Expert

Charles Patrick Ewing

Contact

John DellaContrada

dellacon@buffalo.edu

716-645-5000 ext 1409

Distinguished Service Professor

Law School

716-645-2770

Expertise:

  • Forensic psychology, junvenile homicide
  • Battered women who kill
  • Insanity defenses, including postpartum psychosis; juvenile violence; domestic violence, and repressed memory

A forensic psychologist, Ewing is author of "Kids Who Kill"(1990), which predicted juvenile homicide will reach epidemic proportions by the end of the decade. An earlier book, "Battered Women Who Kill: Psychological Self-Defense as Legal Justification" (1987), advocates legal change to allow battered women who kill their abusers to claim psychological self-defense as a legal justification for their actions. Writing "Fatal Families," a book about murder within the family, including parents who kill their children. Consultant and witness in criminal and domestic trials.

Office: 716-645-2770
Email: cewing@buffalo.edu

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