Fitz-Gibbon, Kate
Homicide Law Reform, Gender and the Provocation Defence
1. Introduction: The Partial Defence of Provocation
Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Part I. The Problem of Provocation
2. Male Honour and the Provocation Defence
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3. Jealous Men and Provocative Women
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4. The Plight of the Provoked Battered Woman
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Part II. Addressing the Provocation Problem ’ Divergent Approaches to Homicide Law Reform
5. Addressing the Provocation Problem
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6. Abolishing Provocation — The Victorian Experience
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7. Replacing Provocation — The English Experience
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8. Restricting Provocation — The New South Wales Experience
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Part III. The Intended and Unintended Effects of Homicide Law Reform
9. New Laws, Same Problems — Alternative Categories to Murder
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10. The Difficulty of Law Reform for Battered Women who Kill
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11. Complicating the Law of Homicide
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12. Questions of Sentencing in the Provocation Debate
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13. Conclusion: The Partial Defence of Provocation and Lessons for Law Reform
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Keywords: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Crime and Society, Criminal Law, Gender Studies, Prison and Punishment, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Fundamentals of Law
- Author(s)
- Fitz-Gibbon, Kate
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 328 pages
- Category
- Upbringing, Education
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137357557
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-47080-8