Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Homicide law reform and gender: configuring violence
Other Titles:	Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
Authors:	Morgan, Jenny
Keywords:	Homicide;Legal issues
Year:	2012
Publisher:	Sage Publications
Citation:	45 (3), December 2012
Notes:	This article charts aspects of the engagement by formal law reform agencies with feminist ideas in the context of homicide law reform. This requires, of course, a concentration on violence against women. The article uses law reform work on the provocation defence to map the ways in which violence against women was an apparent driver of reform. It has Victorian law reform as its focus, and concentrates on the various manifestations of independent law reform agencies in Victoria – the Victorian Law Reform Commission (VLRC), and its two predecessor agencies, the Law Reform Commission of Victoria (LRCV) and the Law Reform Commissioner. The article explores the thesis that when law reform, at least homicide law reform, is driven by the social context in which the legal phenomenon of interest occurs, one is more likely to get progressive legal change than where reform is driven by legal categories. However, that social context had itself to be configured and the paper briefly traces the identification of ‘domestic violence’ as a social phenomenon. [?2012 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. For further information, visit SAGE publications link.]
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/15073
ISSN:	0004-8658
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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