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Women, murder, and justice / Wendy Chan.
Van Pelt Library HV9960.G7 C43 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chan, Wendy, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration--Great Britain.
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Marital violence--Great Britain.
- Marital violence.
- Women murderers--Great Britain.
- Women murderers.
- Murderers--Great Britain.
- Murderers.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, [England] ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
- Summary:
- "Women, Murder and Justice" examines from a feminist perspective, the legal treatment of women who kill their partners in England. Through an exploration of Crown Prosecution Service files, an in-depth comparative examination of the circumstances in which women and men kill is provided. The book highlights gender differences in the act of murder, the criminal justice system's negotiation of these differences, and the development of feminist strategies to alter the legal structure for women who kill.
- Contents:
- 1 Contextualising Domestic Homicides 9
- Female murderers and the English criminal justice system: a brief history 10
- Women as perpetrators of homicide 16
- The gendered nature of homicide 21
- 2 Methodology and Overview of the Cases 38
- Limitations of previous research on women who kill 38
- Methodology of this study 43
- An overview of the cases 47
- 3 Homicide, Intention and Responsibility 55
- Intention and responsibility 56
- Motives and homicide 59
- 4 Gender, Murder and Madness 79
- Contextualising gender and psychiatry 79
- The defence of diminished responsibility 84
- Gender, psychiatry and the legal system: case studies 87
- 5 Access to Provocation and Self-defence 108
- The doctrine of provocation 109
- Provocation in this homicide study 125
- The law of self-defence 136
- The case of R. v Joan 144
- 6 Legal Reform 150
- Law reform strategies 150
- Law reform and the feminist debate 164
- 7 Negotiating Gender Difference in the Criminal Justice System 181
- The difference dilemma 182
- Accepting differences in law 188.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-240) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0333760786
- OCLC:
- 44650862
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