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Women Who Kill, Criminal Law and Domestic Abuse book cover

1st Edition

Women Who Kill, Criminal Law and Domestic Abuse

Edited By Rachel M. McPherson Copyright 2024
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge
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This book presents an informed, coherent and stimulating analysis of UK legal defences of homicide by victims of domestic abuse. Women killing following domestic abuse from a male partner is a significant category of homicide. In some areas of the UK it represents the most common context in which women kill. Yet, despite its significance, it is an aspect of homicide that remains under-researched... Read more

List of tables

List of contributors

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Foreword

VERA BAIRD

Introduction: Contextualising cases in which women kill following domestic abuse

RACHEL M. MCPHERSON

1 Diminished responsibility or justifiable homicide?: The case of Sally Challen

EVAN STARK

2 Labelling her mad: Diminished responsibility and medicalised responses to women who kill their abusers

SIOBHAN WEARE

3 Critical perspectives on the partial defence of loss of control: Justice for women?

ANNA CARLINE

4 ‘Fit for purpose in today’s society?’: Reflecting on provocation pleas in modern Scotland

RACHEL M. MCPHERSON

5 Women who kill their abusers and self-defence

RACHEL M. MCPHERSON

6 Legally male: The householder defence, duress and the continuing exclusion of women

SUSAN S.M. EDWARDS

7 A gender and human rights analysis of Scotland’s response to women who kill their abusers

KATHRYN RAMSAY

8 Domestic abuse education in Scottish law schools: Developments and paths forward

RHONDA WHEATE

9 A practitioners’ guide to representing women who kill following domestic abuse

PARAMJIT AHLUWALIA, CLARE WADE KC AND HARRIET WISTRICH

Index

Biography

Rachel M. McPherson is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Glasgow. Her socio-legal research is focused on legal responses to domestic abuse (particularly domestic homicide) and how criminal defences are used in practice.

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