Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Provocation in New South Wales: the need for abolition
Other Titles:	Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
Authors:	Fitz-Gibbon, Kate
Keywords:	Criminal justice responses;Homicide
Year:	2012
Publisher:	Sage Publications
Citation:	45 (2), August 2012
Notes:	Over the past two decades significant debate has emerged surrounding the operation of the partial defence of provocation. Such debates have led to its abolition in several Australian and international jurisdictions where Government and Law Commission bodies have argued that provocation has operated in a gender biased way that is no longer reflective of community values and expectations of justice. In contrast to the Australian states of Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia, who have transferred consideration of provocation to sentencing, New South Wales (NSW) has retained provocation as a partial defence to murder. Drawing upon in-depth interviews conducted with legal stakeholders and an analysis of recent case law, this article considers whether the operation of provocation in NSW is still in the best interests of justice, and, specifically, whether in practice it privileges one gender above the other. This research concludes that the continued operation of provocation in NSW raises key issues surrounding the legitimisation of male violence against women, the denial and minimisation of the harm caused by lethal domestic violence, and the continued inability of the law to appropriately respond to women who kill in the context of prolonged family violence. [?2012 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. For further information, visit SAGE publications link.]
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/16422
ISSN:	0004-8658
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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