Women, Murder and Justice

Name: Women, Murder and Justice
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ISBN: 9780333760789

ISBN-10: 0333760786

ISBN-13: 9780333760789

Edition: 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Wendy Chan

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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 1/11/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.80" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Wendy Chan is Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University, author of numerous articles and books on crime and immigration, and co-editor of Crimes of Colour: Racialization and the Criminal Justice System in Canada (2001).



List of Tables and Figure


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Contextualising Domestic Homicides


Female murderers and the English criminal justice system: a brief history


Women as perpetrators of homicide


The gendered nature of homicide


Conclusion



Methodology and Overview of the Cases


Limitations of previous research on women who kill


Methodology of this study


An overview of the cases



Homicide, Intention and Responsibility


Intention and responsibility


Motives and homicide


Conclusion



Gender, Murder and Madness


Contextualising gender and psychiatry


The defence of diminished responsibility


Gender, psychiatry and the legal system: case studies


Conclusion



Access to Provocation and Self-defence


The doctrine of provocation


Provocation in this homicide study


The law of self-defence


The case of R. v Joan


Conclusion



Legal Reform


Law reform strategies


Law reform and the feminist debate


Conclusion



Negotiating Gender Difference in the Criminal Justice System


The difference dilemma


Accepting differences in law


Conclusion



Case Summaries


Notes


References


Index