Open AccessDefending Abused Women: Beginning a Critique of New Zealand Criminal Law
Author(s) -
Elisabeth McDonald
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
victoria university of wellington law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-3082
pISSN - 1171-042X
DOI - 10.26686/vuwlr.v27i4.6097
Subject(s) - commit , project commissioning , criminology , context (archaeology) , publishing , criminal law , law , political science , sociology , history , archaeology , database , computer science
The role of abuse in the lives of women who offend has been an issue in a number of recent high profile cases. This article considers the application of a number of defences to cases of violent female offending and concludes that the substantive law does not adequately address the abusive context in which women, as opposed to men, commit criminal acts.