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_aLAW
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_aCHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
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040 _aAFVC
100 _aMidson, Brenda
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245 _aThe helpless protecting the vulnerable? :
_bdefending coerced mothers charged with failure to protect
_cBrenda Midson
260 _bVictoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Law,
_c2014
500 _aVictoria University of Wellington Law Review, 45: 297-320 (Open access)
520 _a"In a number of jurisdictions failure to protect a child from violence renders a person liable if a duty is owed to the child. This duty presumes the defendant has the capacity to act positively to protect the victim, which has implications for defendants who are also subjected to violence or coercion. In the understandable haste to prosecute and prevent child abuse, there is a risk of neglecting the realities of other vulnerable people. Consequently the criminal justice system ought to reject a binary approach to victims and offenders, recognising that defendants may also be victims and that mothers, due to the coercive control exerted by intimate partners, may also be vulnerable. In New Zealand there are no statutory or common law defences that operate to exculpate a mother charged with failing to protect her child from the violence of another. This article argues for the creation of an affirmative defence that takes into account the totality of a coerced mother's circumstances in considering whether she has, in fact, failed her child." (Author's abstract). Record #5200
650 _aABUSED WOMEN
_925
650 _aCHILD PROTECTION
_9118
650 0 _aCOERCIVE CONTROL
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650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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650 _aMOTHERS
_9392
650 4 _aVICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
_9624
651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
_92588
773 0 _tVictoria University of Wellington Law Review, 45: 297-320 (Open access)
830 _aVictoria University of Wellington Law Review
_95174
856 _uhttp://www.victoria.ac.nz/law/research/publications/vuwlr/prev-issues/volume-45,-issue-2/Midson.pdf
942 _2ddc
_cARTICLE