自身防卫就是自然人在遇到不法侵害时,有权运用适度的暴力加以防范,但在司法实践的具体操作中仍然很复杂。受虐妇女与自身防卫是美国刑法中颇受重视的一个问题。鉴于受虐妇女的特殊性,美国法庭对“合理性的标准”与“紧迫性的要求”做出了适当的调整。 Self-defense means that natural persons have the right to use modest violence to guard against unlawful violations, but they are still complicated in the specific operation of judicial practice. Battered women and their own defense are the most important issues in American criminal law. In view of the particularity of abused women, the U.S. tribunals have made appropriate adjustments to the “standards of rationality” and the “urgency requirements”.