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dc.contributor.authorBronitt, Simon
dc.contributor.authorKukulies-Smith, Wendy
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:46:15Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:46:15Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.issn14443058
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14443058.2013.814583
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/56058
dc.description.abstractIn this chapter, the authors trace how the Anglo-Australian system of criminal law constructs crime within the family differently from other forms of crime. The zone of legal impunity for intra-familial crime was carved out by special defences and immunities, such as provocation and marital rape, as well as policing policies and practices that effectively decriminalized 'domestic' forms of physical and sexual abuse. Legal impunity was never absolute, and there were notable exceptions where the familial and gendered aspects of the crime in fact aggravated the offence, such as the law's treatment of spousal murder by females as form of 'petty treason', warranting the most severe punishment of burning at the stake! Reforms in the late 20th century removed overt forms of gender discrimination from the criminal law, exposing a new legal visibility of crime within 'the family', though as the authors conclude, there are still remnants of differential treatment in fields of sentencing law and practice.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom390
dc.relation.ispartofpageto401
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Australian Studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume37
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminal Law and Procedure
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode180110
dc.titleCrime, punishment, family violence, and the cloak of legal invisibility
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
gro.rights.copyright© 2013 International Australian Studies Association (InASA). This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Australian Studies, Volume 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 390-401. Journal of Australian Studies is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com with the open URL of your article.
gro.date.issued2015-03-03T21:55:43Z
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gro.griffith.authorBronitt, Simon H.


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