Women, Murder and Justice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction

   • Wendy Chan

   Pages 1-8

3. Contextualising Domestic Homicides

   • Wendy Chan

   Pages 9-37

4. Methodology and Overview of the Cases

   • Wendy Chan

   Pages 38-54

5. Homicide, Intention and Responsibility

   • Wendy Chan

   Pages 55-78

6. Gender, Murder and Madness

   • Wendy Chan

   Pages 79-107

7. Access to Provocation and Self defence

   • Wendy Chan

   Pages 108-149

8. Legal Reform

   • Wendy Chan

   Pages 150-180

9. Negotiating Gender Difference in the Criminal Justice System

   • Wendy Chan

   Pages 181-195

10. Back Matter

    Pages 196-244

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Women, Murder and Justice examines from a feminist perspective, the legal treatment of women who kill their partners in England. Through an exploration of Crown Prosecution Service files, an in-depth comparative examination of the circumstances in which women and men kill is provided. The book highlights gender differences in the act of murder, the criminal justice system's negotiation of these differences, and the development of feminist strategies to alter the legal structure for women who kill.

• Alter
• criminal justice
• feminism
• gender
• methodology
• Nation
• service
• women

'This book should be read by everyone interested in women, aggression, violence, murder and the criminal justice system.' - Eleanor Hubbard, Contemporary Sociology

• School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada

  Wendy Chan

WENDY CHAN is Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada.

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