Intimate Partner Femicide: Contesting the Legal Story [Hardcover]

Domestic violence legislation is a key response to the entrenched social problem of intimate partner violence across the globe, yet little is known about the legal players who implement these laws in terms of their perceptions of intimate partner violence and femicide. Through in-depth, critical analysis of judicial transcripts, this book demonstrates that legal understandings of intimate partner femicide continue to be based upon outdated notions of 'couple conflict' and gender-neutral constructions of intimate partner violence. Contending that judicial understandings of what happened must be re-aligned with feminist understandings of intimate partner violence and femicide, Intimate Partner Femicide: Contesting the Legal Story ... represents a call to uphold the rights of women to live free from male-perpetrated violence and femicide. This book will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in gendered violence, law, social justice and criminology.

Through in-depth, critical analysis of judicial transcripts, this book demonstrates that legal understandings of intimate partner homicide continue to be based upon outdated notions of 'couple conflict' and and calls for the re-alignment of judicial understandings with feminist understandings of intimate partner violence.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1. Introduction      

Chapter 2. Ways of Thinking About Intimate Partner Violence

Chapter 3. Analytic Approach

Chapter 4. The Intimate Partner Femicides

Chapter 5. The Victims and the Killers

Chapter 6. Couples Argue

Chapter 7. Reducing Mens Culpability