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100			_aWhite, Keryn _92320
245			_aIntimate homicide : _bwomen as offenders, women as victims, and the trouble with the law _cWhite, Keryn
246			_aDissertation LL.B (Hons), University of Waikato
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300			_a56 p.
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520			_aThis dissertation looks at the legal response to intimate homicide. This form of intimate partner violence is usually the last act in a continuum of violence against women in, or after, relationships. When women kill their intimate partners they kill out of fear of death or bodily injury. When men kill their partners they kill to control or to punish. The legal response to these crimes does not reflect the true nature of either group. For women, this means that they are subject to male aggression that is not legally sanctioned, and from which they cannot effectively protect themselves. Necessity for reform is clear, but many suggestions for change focus on only one gender, and while this may help, it will always be limited. The author argues that to adequately protect women, discourses and assumptions that render women powerless and men powerful, must be directly challenged. Legal systems must understand that domestic violence and intimate homicide are related and are completely different to male paradigms of violence. Part I discusses violence and intimate homicide, and how the gap between reality and legal response has occurred and been maintained. Part II outlines the gap between the reality of intimate homicide and the legal construction of the crimes, and highlights the common reasons for the differences. Part III considers suggestions for new defences, reformulations of current defences and new definitions of crimes, for both male and female offenders, and highlights their dependency on each other.--AUTHOR'S ABSTRACT
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650	2	7	_2FVC _aCHILDREN _9127
650	2	7	_2FVC _aCULTURAL ISSUES _9177
650	2	7	_2FVC _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE _9203
650	2	7	_2FVC _aHOMICIDE _9297
650	2	7	_2FVC _aJUSTICE _9333
650	2	7	_2FVC _aLEGISLATION _9346
650	2	7	_2FVC _aOFFENDERS _9413
650	2	7	_2FVC _aTHESES _9606
650	2	4	_aVICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE _9624
650	2	7	_9431 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE _2FVC
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