| Description |
xv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Australian studies in law, crime and justice |
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Australian studies in law, crime, and justice.
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| Contents |
Chapter 1. The Missing Pieces of the Puzzle -- Overseas Studies -- Problems in Applying Overseas Data to Australia -- The Current Research: Filling in the Spaces -- Prevention Through the Puzzle Pieces -- Chapter 2. Stalking the Cases --The National Homicide Monitoring Data (the National Data) -- New South Wales and Victorian Court Data Set (the In-Depth Data Set) -- The Data Analysis -- Chapter 3 Detecting Patterns in the Incidents -- Where homicides between adult sexual intimates occur -- When Do the Homicides Take Place? -- Number of Perpetrators per Incident -- Number of Victims per Incident -- The Method of Killing -- Chapter 4. The Players --Ethnicity -- Gender -- Age -- Employment Status -- Relationship of Offender and Victim -- Chapter 5. Why Did They Do It? -- Most Contributing Factors -- Prior Physical Violence -- Alcohol and Other Drugs - Jealousy - Separation - Psychiatric illness - Physical illness -- Chapter 6. Self-destruction -- Comparative High Frequency in Contrast to Other Homicides -- Jurisdiction -- Gender -- Number of Victims --Aboriginality -- Overseas Birth -- Age of Offenders -- Employment -- Physical Battering Prehistory -- Alcohol Abuse Separation/Cohabitation -- Weapon -- Chapter 7. Justice in the Courts -- Remand or Bail -- Time Between Homicide and Trial -- The Verdict -- Sentence -- The Outcomes of Case Studies -- Chapter 8. Sentencing Battered Women -- Mitigating Variables -- An Alternative Sentencing Model -- Battered Woman Syndrome -- The Time Gap in Australia -- If BWS had been available to the Ten Defendants -- Sentencing Men: the Discretion of the Court --Guilty of Murder -- Manslaughter: Provocation -- Manslaughter: Lack of Intent -- Manslaughter: Diminished Responsibility -- Chapter 10. Band-Aids and Solutions -- Data into Prevention -- Solution: Changing Attitudes and Behaviour |
| Analysis |
Australia overseas comparisons |
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Domestic violence |
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Homicide |
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Statistics |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography: pages [189]-193 and index |
| Notes |
Also available in an online version |
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Also available on the Internet at URL: http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/previous%20series/lcj/1-20/beloved.html |
| Subject |
Abused women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia.
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Marital violence -- Australia.
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Family violence -- Australia.
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Homicide -- Australia.
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Married people -- Australia.
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Murder -- Australia.
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Unmarried couples -- Australia.
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Uxoricide -- Australia.
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| Author |
Easteal, Patricia
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Australian Institute of Criminology.
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| LC no. |
94148746 |
| ISBN |
0642193053 |
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