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Challenges in the contemporary global policy framework -- Securitising sexual violence : transitions from war to peace / Anette Bringedal Houge and Inger Skjelsbæk -- Climate change : the production of gendered insecurity and slow intimate partner violence / Nancy Wonders -- Spacelessness, spatiality and intimate partner violence : technology-facilitated abuse / Stalking and Justice, Bridget Harris -- Challenging risk : the production of knowledge on gendered violence in south africa / Floretta Boozanier -- Surveying the womanscape : objectification, self-objectification, and intimate partner violence / Jan Jordan -- National security, difference and precarity -- Mapping gender violence narratives in the northern triangle of Central America / Leda Lozier -- Temporary migration and family violence : the borders of coercive control / Marie Segrave -- Misunderstanding risk, migration and ethnicity in intimate partner violence / Gemma Varona Martinez 9. "QUE DIRÁN" : Making Sense of the Impact of Latinas' Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in New York City / Yolanda Oritiz and Jayne Mooney -- Everyday security and criminal justice questions -- The criminalisation of femicide / Thiago Pierobom de Ávila -- Considering victim safety when sentencing intimate partner offenders / Julia Tolmie -- Domestic violence protection orders and their role in ensuring personal security / Heather Douglas 13. Negotiating Women's Safety : The Mandatory Charging Debate / Holly Johnson and Deborah E. Conners -- Criminalising private torture as feminist strategy : thinking through the implications / Elizabeth A. Sheehy -- Conclusion: securing women's lives : making them count and accounting for men's violence / Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate, Jude McCulloch, and JaneMaree Maher

In 2003, the UK Parliament introduced a presumptive minimum sentencing scheme for the offence of murder. Schedule 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 sought to achieve greater consistency in the setting of minimum terms of imprisonment, while also providing a clear directive to judges on the need to punish and deter particularly aggravating contexts of intentional lethal violence. This article critically analyses the effects of this approach to sentencing, with 10 years' hindsight, and considers whether the continued imposition of a presumptive minimum sentencing scheme is in the best interests of justice. To examine the impacts of the 2003 Act, the article draws on interviews conducted with 26 English legal practitioners. It concludes that the introduction of a sentencing guideline for murder, alongside the repeal of Schedule 21, would better align sentencing practices for murder with those of other serious offences while also arguably allowing for more proportionate sentences to be applied on an individual case-by-case basis.

Over the past decade, homicide law reform surrounding the partial defences to murder has animated debate among criminological scholars and legal stakeholders in Australia and the United Kingdom. In response to these debates, criminal jurisdictions have conducted reviews of the partial defences to murder and implemented reforms targeted at reducing gender bias in the law which has played out through the operation of the partial defence of provocation. This research examines the different approaches taken to addressing the problem posed by provocation in Victoria, New South Wales and England. In doing so, it explores questions around the need for reform to the law of homicide, the effects of these reforms in practice, and the influential role of sentencing in questions surrounding homicide law reform. Throughout the analysis key frameworks of criminological thought in relation to feminist engagements with the law, the conceptualisation of denial and the influence of law and order politics upon the development of criminal justice policy are applied. By drawing on 81 in-depth interviews conducted with legal stakeholders across the three jurisdictions under study, and an analysis of relevant case law, this research concludes that reforms implemented to counter gender bias in the operation of homicide law have produced mixed results in practice, particularly in connection to the law's response to three key categories of person in the courtroom: the jealous man, the female victim of homicide, and the battered woman.

"This book maps the problems and possibilities of the policies and practices designed to tackle violence against women in the domestic sphere over the last 40 years. In 2018, the United Nations declared the home the most dangerous place for women around the word, and in early April 2020, the United Nations Population Fund predicted that for every three months that government enforced lockdowns in response to coronavirus an additional 15 million cases of domestic violence would occur worldwide. This book asks the simple yet critical question: how can governments best ensure women's safety in the twenty-first century? Taking its title from Elizabeth Wilson's 1983 book and her three-level approach of considering the role of social policy, the law and ideology, Fitz-Gibbon and Walklate draw on their expertise on femicide, domestic abuse and family violence to examine the salience of global and local policy and practice responses to such violence(s), and to ask timely questions about the ongoing value of the recourse to the criminal law for twenty-first century policy. Comparative in orientation, appreciative of the importance of geographical and social context, and committed to understanding the historical processes that continue to frame policy responses, this book takes a long hard look at what has and has not been achieved in relation to domestic abuse and family violence and seeks to challenge all that has come to be taken for granted in responding to such violence(s). Published in the 40th Anniversary of Elizabeth Wilson's ground-breaking contribution, this book is destined to become a classic in its own right. It is essential reading for all those engaged in feminist criminology, gender and crime, family and domestic violence, and violence against women"--

chapter INTRODUCTION: WOMEN AND CRIME OR GENDER AND CRIME? -- part PART I THEORY -- chapter 1 CRIMINOLOGY, VICTIMOLOGY AND FEMINISM -- chapter 2 CRIMINOLOGY, VICTIMOLOGY AND MASCULINISM -- part PART II PRACTICE -- chapter 3 FEAR, RISK AND SECURITY -- chapter 4 GENDERING (SEXUAL) VIOLENCE -- part PART III POLICY -- chapter 5 POLICING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE -- chapter 6 GENDER, LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY.

This book examines the relationship between gender and crime and explores both the gendered nature of crime alongside the gendered nature of criminal victimisation. Covering theory, policy and practice, this new edition has been fully revised to reflect the wider changes, development and influence of gendered thinking in these areas. It brings together a range of key issues, including:Gender and victimisation, Gendered perspectives in law and criminal justice policy. Male dominance in the criminal justice system, New to the third edition is increased coverage of gender and crime in international perspective, particularly within the global south, and emerging concepts of risk and security. This is essential reading for advanced courses on gender and crime, women and crime, and feminist criminology. Sexual and domestic violence, Theories and concepts in feminist criminology.

Introduction: homicide, gender and responsibility / Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate -- Making sense of the boundaries between homicide, gender and responsibility -- A question of provocation or responsibility? : revisiting the case of Ruth Ellis and David Blakely / Anette Ballinger -- Murder, manslaughter and domestic violence / Julie Stubbs -- Representing intimacy, gender and homicide : the validity and utility of common stereotypes in law / Myrna Dawson -- Constructions of masculinity and responsibility in the sentencing of children who commit lethal violence / Kate Fitz-Gibbon -- Murderousness in war : from mai lai to marine a / Sandra Walklate and Ross McGarry -- Blurring the boundaries between homicide, gender and responsibility -- "He seems to come out as a personally cruel person" : perpetrator re-presentations in direct murder cases at the ICTY / Anette Bringedal Houge -- Lethal violence and legal ambiguities : deaths in custody in Australia's offshore detention centres / Alison Gerard and Tracey A. Kerr -- Attributing criminal responsibility for workplace fatalities and deaths in custody : corporate manslaughter in Britain and Ireland / David Doyle and Joe McGrath -- Conclusion concluding thoughts on homicide, gender and responsibility / Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate

"The crime of homicide has long animated academic debate, community concern and political attention. The discussion has often centered on the perceived (in)adequacy of legal responses to homicide, questions of culpability, and divergent representations of victims and offenders. Within this, notions of gender, responsibility and justice are pivotal. This edited collection builds on existing scholarship by examining these concerns not only in the context of the 'private' world of domestic murder but also in the more 'public' world of the state, the corporation, war, and genocide. In so doing this book draws from key frameworks of criminological thought, legal analysis and empirical evidence to critically examine the relationship between homicide, gender and responsibility. Bringing together leading international criminology and legal scholars, this collection provides a unique contribution to the academic and policy engagement with what is, more often than not, an ordinary and mundane crime. Analysing the crime in a variety of different social contexts alongside an in-depth and critical analysis of the interconnections between the ordinary act of lethal violence, gender and notions of responsibility, this book will be of interest to students, scholars and policymakers working in criminology and socio-legal studies"--Provided by publisher