Women Who Kill, Criminal Law and Domestic Abuse

Women Who Kill, Criminal Law and Domestic Abuse

McPherson, Rachel M.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

04/2025

180

Mole

9781032052892

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Introduction: Contextualising cases in which women kill following domestic abuse

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

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

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

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

5 Women who kill their abusers and self-defence

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

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

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

9 A practitioners' guide to representing women who kill following domestic abuse
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Homicide;domestic abuse;women who kill;Criminal Law;Criminal Justice;pre-trial preparation;pre-trial decision making;criminal defence;Coercive Control;Hm Advocate;Partial Defences;Intimate Partner Homicide;Abusive Partners;CEDAW Committee;Women's Justice;Culpable Homicide;Mandatory Life Sentence;Sexual Infidelity;Domestic Homicide;Qualifying Trigger;Intimate Partner Femicide;Diminished Responsibility Defence;UK's Implementation;Householder Defence;Law Commission;SCCRC;Domestic Abuse Cases;Southall Black Sisters;Equal Treatment Bench Book;Istanbul Convention;Unlawful Act Manslaughter;Diminished Responsibility