#  New Essay from Caroline Light's Blog 

 





March 22, 2023

 

 

 Read Caroline Light’s [blog post](https://hphr.org/blog-light-8-intimate-violence/) about “Intimate Violence” and Stand Your Ground laws.

 Professor [Caroline Light](/people/caroline-light) has published a new essay on her HPHR blog, [In The Crosshairs](https://hphr.org/columnist-dr-caroline-light/). The essay is part of a series discussing "legal cases in which women or transgender people used guns to defend themselves against their abusers and \[deciphering\] the different ways in which states adjudicate self-defense cases involving domestic or intimate partner violence."

 Caroline Light is the author of *Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s L+ove Affair with Lethal Self-Defense* (Beacon Press, 2017). Her blog, [In the Crosshairs](https://hphr.org/columnist-dr-caroline-light/), appears on the website of the School of Public Health's *HPHR Journal.*



 

 

 



 

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