"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: Theories and concepts in feminist criminology, ..."
"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 ..."
"Increasingly there is global attention on the prevalence of women’s deaths resulting from intimate partner violence. Campaigns such as ‘Counting Dead Women’ in Australia, the ‘Femicide Census’ in England, the Canadian Femicide Observatory, and the emergence of family violence death review teams globally, build on the work of agencies such as the United Nations and the World Health Organisation, highlighting the fatal consequences of int ..."
A Second Chance for Justice(Unabridged) The Prosecutions of Gabe Watson for the Death of Tina Thomas by Asher Flynn, KateFitz-Gibbon Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2013 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-4202-0, ISBN: 1-4438-4202-8
"Tina Thomas would have been turning 35 on the day that her husband of less than two weeks stood trial for her murder in the Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, US. Eight years and almost four months had passed since Tina died on her honeymoon, while scuba diving near the SS Yongala wreck on the Great Barrier Reef in Northern Queensland, Australia. During this period, there had been extensive police investigations conduct ..."
"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: Theories and concepts in feminist criminology, ..."
"This edited collection addresses intimate partner violence, risk and security as global issues. Although intimate partner violence, risk and security are intimately connected they are rarely considered in tandem in the context of global security. Yet intimate partner violence causes widespread physical, sexual and/or psychological harm. It is the most common type of violence against women internationally and the most common type of fami ..."
"The operation of the partial defence of provocation has animated significant debate for more than two decades among scholars, legal practitioners, politicians and the community. In recognition of the injustices that result from its operation, criminal justice systems worldwide have conducted reviews of the law of provocation and have implemented divergent reforms targeted at minimizing the influence of gender bias in the law's operation ..."
"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 ..."
"She is currently involved in a study with Yolanda ortiz-Rodríguez on the impact of
immigration policy on undocumented Latina women. Yolanda Ortiz-Rodríguez is
an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City ..."
"|Walklate, Sandra, editor. Title: Homicide, gender and responsibility : an
international perspective / edited by Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate.
Description: New York: Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge studies in crime and
society Identifiers: LCCN 2015042636|ISBN 9781138843479 (hardback) | ISBN
9781315730981 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Homicide—Great Britain. | Sex role—
Great Britain. | Criminal justice, Administration of—Gr ..."
"Over the past three decades, the operation of the partial defence of provocation has attracted significant community attention, scholarly debate and political interest in an international range of jurisdictions. In fact, it is difficult to locate a jurisdiction that has not confronted to some extent the problem of provocation, as multiple criminal jurisdictions have conducted reviews of the partial defences to murder, and implemented re ..."
A Second Chance for Justice The Prosecutions of Gabe Watson for the Death of Tina Thomas by Asher Flynn, KateFitz-Gibbon 296 Pages, Published 2013 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-4631-8, ISBN: 1-4438-4631-7
"... prosecutors have become what Professor Stephanos Bibas refers to as “the
key gatekeepers who ration criminal justice”.11 Within Queensland specifically,
the majority of criminal cases are resolved by pleas of guilty rather than running a
jury trial. As the Honourable Martin Moynihan stated in his 2008 evaluation of the
Queensland criminal and civil justice systems, “although the criminal trial is seen
as the end point for the c ..."
"2015 marks a decade since the release of the Victorian Law Reform Commission's Defences to Homicide: Final Report. The Commission's Final Report recommended major changes to the law of homicide in Victoria and in 2005, the Victorian government responded to the 56 recommendations by implementing the largest package of homicide law reforms since the abolition of the death penalty. This book brings together leading scholars, legal practiti ..."
Our National Shame Violence Against Women (In the National Interest) by Fitz-Gibbon, Kate Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2021 by Monash University Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-922464-67-5, ISBN: 1-922464-67-8
"The softly-softly response to allegations of abuse, harassment and sexual violence reflects a longstanding pattern of our political leaders not taking women's safety seriously.In Our National Shame, Kate Fitz-Gibbon reminds us that violence ..."
"such globalised feminist perspectives can cast different lights on the shape and
form of crime and victimisation. ... Joanne Belknap's (2015) The Invisible Woman:
Gender, Crime and Justice offers a very detailed empirically informed analysis of
..."
"responsibility? Revisiting the case of Ruth Ellis and David Blakely Anette
Ballinger Despite having taken place in 1955 ... her case had a direct impact on
the law in that it was central to the introduction of the defence of diminished
responsibility ..."