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OverviewThis book critically examines the operation of the partial defence of provocation in a range of comparative international jurisdictions. Centrally concerned with conceptual questions of gender, justice and the role of denial in the criminal justice system, Fitz-Gibbon explores the divergent approaches taken to reforming the law of provocation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kate Fitz-GibbonPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.545kg ISBN: 9781137357540ISBN 10: 1137357541 Pages: 315 Publication Date: 23 September 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Partial Defence of Provocation PART I: THE PROBLEM OF PROVOCATION 1. Male Honour and the Provocation Defence 2. Jealous Men and Provocative Women 3. The Plight of the Provoked Battered Woman PART II: ADDRESSING THE PROVOCATION PROBLEM - DIVERGENT APPROACHES TO HOMICIDE LAW REFORM 4. Addressing the Provocation Problem 5. Abolishing Provocation - the Victorian Experience 6. Replacing Provocation - the English Experience 7. Restricting Provocation – the New South Wales Experience PART III: THE INTENDED AND UNINTENDED EFFECTS OF HOMICIDE LAW REFORM 8. New Laws, Same Problems - Alternative Categories to Murder 9. The Difficulty of Law Reform for Battered Women Who Kill 10. Complicating the Law of Homicide 11. Questions of Sentencing in the Provocation Debate Conclusion: The Partial Defence of Provocation and Lessons for Law ReformReviews'In this outstanding work, Kate Fitz-Gibbon explains, in fascinating detail, how legislatures across the globe have struggled to adapt the provocation defence to the modern world. Fitz-Gibbon brings the issue of gender to the fore, in deconstructing and reconstructing a defence to murder long criticised for its leniency towards men who kill in anger.' - Professor Jeremy HorderDepartment of Law, London School of Economics, UK This is an important study of diversity in the evolution of the law of criminal homicide as legislatures respond to the continuing crisis in intimate partner homicides. It is unique in Australian criminal law scholarship in its reliance on the comparative experience of judges, prosecutors, defenders and law reformers in England, Victoria and New South Wales. - Ian Leader-ElliotAdjunct Professor at the University of South Australia School of Law and Emeritus Fellow, Adelaide University School of Law, Australia This book, rooted in exemplary research, offers a unique opportunity for all those involved in criminology and the criminal justice process to think hard about the persistence of gendered thinking and the limitations that poses for those likely to be in receipt of the strongest sentences a court can impose. It will become a landmark text on this issue: deservedly so. - Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK 'In this outstanding work, Kate Fitz-Gibbon explains, in fascinating detail, how legislatures across the globe have struggled to adapt the provocation defence to the modern world. Fitz-Gibbon brings the issue of gender to the fore, in deconstructing and reconstructing a defence to murder long criticised for its leniency towards men who kill in anger.' - Professor Jeremy Horder Department of Law, London School of Economics, UK This is an important study of diversity in the evolution of the law of criminal homicide as legislatures respond to the continuing crisis in intimate partner homicides. It is unique in Australian criminal law scholarship in its reliance on the comparative experience of judges, prosecutors, defenders and law reformers in England, Victoria and New South Wales. - Ian Leader-Elliott Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia School of Law and Emeritus Fellow, Adelaide University School of Law, Australia This book, rooted in exemplary research, offers a unique opportunity for all those involved in criminology and the criminal justice process to think hard about the persistence of gendered thinking and the limitations that poses for those likely to be in receipt of the strongest sentences a court can impose. It will become a landmark text on this issue: deservedly so. - Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK Author InformationKate Fitz-Gibbon is a Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University, Australia. Her research focuses on legal responses to lethal violence and effects of criminal law reform in Australian and international jurisdictions. She has advised government bodies on the law of homicide in several Australian jurisdictions and has published on homicide law reform in leading criminology and law journals. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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