ABSTRACT

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 in the context of the ‘private’ world of domestic murder but also in the more ‘public’ world of the state, the corporation, war, and genocide. In so doing this book draws from key frameworks of criminological thought, legal analysis and empirical evidence to critically examine the relationship between homicide, gender and responsibility.

Bringing together leading international criminology and legal scholars, this collection provides a unique contribution to the academic and policy engagement with what is, more often than not, an ordinary and mundane crime. Analysing the crime in a variety of different social contexts alongside an in-depth and critical analysis of the interconnections between the ordinary act of lethal violence, gender and notions of responsibility, this book will be of interest to students, scholars and policymakers working in criminology and socio-legal studies.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Homicide, gender and responsibility
ByKate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate

part |82 pages

Making sense of the boundaries between homicide, gender and responsibility

chapter |21 pages

A question of provocation or responsibility?

Revisiting the case of Ruth Ellis and David Blakely
ByAnette Ballinger

chapter |17 pages

Murder, manslaughter and domestic violence

ByJulie Stubbs

chapter |25 pages

Representing intimacy, gender and homicide

The validity and utility of common stereotypes in law
ByMyrna Dawson

part |86 pages

Blurring the boundaries between homicide, gender and responsibility

chapter |16 pages

Murderousness in war

From My Lai to Marine A
BySandra Walklate, Ross McGarry

chapter |17 pages

‘He seems to come out as a personally cruel person'

Perpetrator re-presentations in direct murder cases at the ICTY 1
ByAnette Bringedal Houge

chapter |18 pages

Lethal violence and legal ambiguities

Deaths in custody in Australia's offshore detention centres
ByAlison Gerard, Tracey A. Kerr

chapter |23 pages

Attributing criminal responsibility for workplace fatalities and deaths in custody

Corporate manslaughter in Britain and Ireland
ByDavid M. Doyle, Joe McGrath

chapter |10 pages

Concluding thoughts on homicide, gender and responsibility

BySandra Walklate, Kate Fitz-Gibbon