Battered women charged with homicide in Australia, Canada and New Zealand : How do they fare?
Sheehy, Elizabeth
Battered women charged with homicide in Australia, Canada and New Zealand : How do they fare? Elizabeth Sheehy, Julie Stubbs and Julia Tolmie - Sage, 2013 - electronic document (26 p.); 354.07 KB - Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology .
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 2012, 45(3) 383–399
This article examines trends in the resolution of homicide cases involving battered women defendants from 2000 to 2010 in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Australia and Canada
appear to have some commonalities in their treatment of such cases with higher acquittal rates and a greater reliance on plea bargaining to produce manslaughter verdicts, as compared with New Zealand. Although New Zealand’s small number of cases makes it difficult to generalise, its overall trends appear to be different from those observed in Australia and Canada, in both the high proportion of cases proceeding to trial and those resulting in conviction for murder. (from the abstract). See also record #3980 - full text available for that item.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
ABUSED WOMEN
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
HOMICIDE
JUSTICE
LEGISLATION
SELF DEFENCE
WOMEN'S USE OF VIOLENCE
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
WOMEN
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
LAW
AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND
CANADA
Battered women charged with homicide in Australia, Canada and New Zealand : How do they fare? Elizabeth Sheehy, Julie Stubbs and Julia Tolmie - Sage, 2013 - electronic document (26 p.); 354.07 KB - Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology .
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 2012, 45(3) 383–399
This article examines trends in the resolution of homicide cases involving battered women defendants from 2000 to 2010 in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Australia and Canada
appear to have some commonalities in their treatment of such cases with higher acquittal rates and a greater reliance on plea bargaining to produce manslaughter verdicts, as compared with New Zealand. Although New Zealand’s small number of cases makes it difficult to generalise, its overall trends appear to be different from those observed in Australia and Canada, in both the high proportion of cases proceeding to trial and those resulting in conviction for murder. (from the abstract). See also record #3980 - full text available for that item.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
ABUSED WOMEN
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
HOMICIDE
JUSTICE
LEGISLATION
SELF DEFENCE
WOMEN'S USE OF VIOLENCE
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
WOMEN
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
LAW
AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND
CANADA