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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Bradfield, Rebecca | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-30T23:35:21Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-30T23:35:21Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2002 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/17837 | - |
| dc.format | 439 p. | en |
| dc.language | en | en |
| dc.publisher | unpublished thesis | en |
| dc.subject | Homicide | en |
| dc.subject | Legal issues | en |
| dc.subject | Criminal justice responses | en |
| dc.title | The treatment of women who kill their violent male partners within the Australian criminal justice stystem | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| dc.identifier.catalogid | 6361 | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | new_record | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | Thesis | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | National | en |
| dc.description.notes | Bradfield’s PhD thesis provides an empirical study detailing the legal outcome and circumstances of the killing in the 76 cases identified where women have killed their male partners. She examines the reliance on the various defences to homicide (diminished responsibility, provocation, lack of the requisite intent for murder, self-defence, insanity and automatism) and argues that the current approach of the Australian criminal justice system to battered women who kill reveals sympathy for their situation but a failure to consider adequately whether these circumstances provide the basis for self-defence. She proposes a shift in the current evidentiary approach to battered women who kill from the ‘battered woman syndrome’ framework to the reception of social framework evidence in its own right. The thesis makes 13 recommendations in its conclusions including statutory reform to the defence of self-defence, that the defence of provocation be abolished and that judges recognise the legitimacy of the accused’s motivation of self-protection as a mitigating factor in the imposition of sentence. | en |
| dc.date.entered | 2002-11-13 | en |
| dc.description.contents | Conclusions and recommendations<br/ >Bibliography<br/ >Appendix. | en |
| dc.description.contents | Ch. 8: Punishing the woman - sentencing women who kill their male partners<br/ > | en |
| dc.description.contents | Ch. 7: Understanding the woman - the admissibility of evidence of domestic violence<br/ > | en |
| dc.description.contents | Ch. 6: The 'frightened' woman - the defence of self-defence and homicide<br/ > | en |
| dc.description.contents | Ch. 4: The 'appropriate' woman<br/ > | en |
| dc.description.contents | Ch. 3: Homicide and the framework of the defences to murder<br/ > | en |
| dc.description.contents | Ch. 2: Filling in the picture - the backdrop of domestic violence<br/ > | en |
| dc.description.contents | Ch. 1: Setting the scene - spousal homicide<br/ > | en |
| dc.description.contents | Ch. 5: The 'angry' woman - the defence of provocation and homicide<br/ > | en |
| dc.description.physicaldescription | 439 p. | en |
| Appears in Collections: | Miscellaneous | |
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