The historical examination of filicide in Australia is limited and often focuses on case studies
of maternal filicides. Longitudinal trends of Australian filicide offending have focused almost …

Abstract Records from the Central Register of Female Prisoners permit a longitudinal
analysis of ninety-five women convicted of murder and manslaughter in Victoria between …

Over the past decade, there has been a paradigm shift away from understanding intimate
partner violence (IPV) as comprising single discrete instances of physical abuse towards a …

In 2005, the Australian State of Victoria abolished the controversial partial defence of
provocation. Part of the impetus for the reforms was to challenge provocation's victim …

This study examined 32 Australian cases of women prosecuted for killing their abusive male
partners in self-defence between 2010 and 2023. The objective was to track the legal …

Concerns over the legal treatment of women who kill in response to domestic abuse have
driven several jurisdictions to reform their homicide laws in recent years. This article …

Across Australian criminal jurisdictions, the most frequent method of case finalisation is not a
contested trial, but through the accused entering a plea of guilty. Within this context …

Results This study found that between 87 and 100 per cent of guilty pleas entered at all
levels of the Victorian courts are the result of a negotiated agreement between the …

Cases in which women have killed their sleeping or otherwise inattentive abusive partners
to “escape” domestic violence have arisen in both Germany and Australia. In this context, the …

The article examines the evidence of endemic financial crime in the global financial crisis
(GFC), the legal impunity surrounding these crimes and the popular revolt against these …