Women Who Kill, Criminal Law and Domestic Abuse

This book presents an informed, coherent and stimulating analysis of UK legal defences of homicide by victims of domestic abuse. It combines the experiences of those in practice with academic expertise, pointing to potential sites of injustice and offering suggestions for reform.

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Rachel M. McPherson is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Glasgow. Her socio-legal research is focused on legal responses to domestic abuse (particularly domestic homicide) and how criminal defences are used in practice.

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Introduction: Contextualising cases in which women kill following domestic abuse

1 Diminished responsibility or justifiable homicide?: The case of Sally Challen

2 Labelling her mad: Diminished responsibility and medicalised responses to women who kill their abusers

3 Critical perspectives on the partial defence of loss of control: Justice for women?

4 'Fit for purpose in today's society?': Reflecting on provocation pleas in modern Scotland

5 Women who kill their abusers and self-defence

6 Legally male: The householder defence, duress and the continuing exclusion of women

7 A gender and human rights analysis of Scotland's response to women who kill their abusers

8 Domestic abuse education in Scottish law schools: Developments and paths forward

9 A practitioners' guide to representing women who kill following domestic abuse