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
Kate Fitz-Gibbon

3. Jealous Men and Provocative Women
Kate Fitz-Gibbon

4. The Plight of the Provoked Battered Woman
Kate Fitz-Gibbon

Part II. Addressing the Provocation Problem ’ Divergent Approaches to Homicide Law Reform

5. Addressing the Provocation Problem
Kate Fitz-Gibbon

6. Abolishing Provocation — The Victorian Experience
Kate Fitz-Gibbon

7. Replacing Provocation — The English Experience
Kate Fitz-Gibbon

8. Restricting Provocation — The New South Wales Experience
Kate Fitz-Gibbon

Part III. The Intended and Unintended Effects of Homicide Law Reform

9. New Laws, Same Problems — Alternative Categories to Murder
Kate Fitz-Gibbon

10. The Difficulty of Law Reform for Battered Women who Kill
Kate Fitz-Gibbon

11. Complicating the Law of Homicide
Kate Fitz-Gibbon

12. Questions of Sentencing in the Provocation Debate
Kate Fitz-Gibbon

13. Conclusion: The Partial Defence of Provocation and Lessons for Law Reform
Kate Fitz-Gibbon

Keywords: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Crime and Society, Criminal Law, Gender Studies, Prison and Punishment, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Fundamentals of Law