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Reflecting on Legal Responses to Intimate Partner Femicide in Scotland
This article considers legal responses to intimate partner femicide in Scotland. It reflects on how the plea of provocation on the basis of infidelity has been used, pointing to misrepresentation of the relationship between domestic abuse and stalking. From there, findings from 57 intimate partner f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9896526/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35989666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778012221094068 |
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description | This article considers legal responses to intimate partner femicide in Scotland. It reflects on how the plea of provocation on the basis of infidelity has been used, pointing to misrepresentation of the relationship between domestic abuse and stalking. From there, findings from 57 intimate partner femicide cases are presented. These findings indicate problematic stereotypes in how intimate partner femicide cases are reported and the operation of the “love narrative” in sentencing. It is concluded that more must be done to label intimate partner femicide cases appropriately and that improvements are achievable within the current criminal justice framework. |
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spelling | pubmed-98965262023-02-04 Reflecting on Legal Responses to Intimate Partner Femicide in Scotland McPherson, Rachel Violence Against Women Research Articles This article considers legal responses to intimate partner femicide in Scotland. It reflects on how the plea of provocation on the basis of infidelity has been used, pointing to misrepresentation of the relationship between domestic abuse and stalking. From there, findings from 57 intimate partner femicide cases are presented. These findings indicate problematic stereotypes in how intimate partner femicide cases are reported and the operation of the “love narrative” in sentencing. It is concluded that more must be done to label intimate partner femicide cases appropriately and that improvements are achievable within the current criminal justice framework. SAGE Publications 2022-08-22 2023-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9896526/ /pubmed/35989666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778012221094068 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Research Articles McPherson, Rachel Reflecting on Legal Responses to Intimate Partner Femicide in Scotland |
title | Reflecting on Legal Responses to Intimate Partner Femicide in
Scotland |
title_full | Reflecting on Legal Responses to Intimate Partner Femicide in
Scotland |
title_fullStr | Reflecting on Legal Responses to Intimate Partner Femicide in
Scotland |
title_full_unstemmed | Reflecting on Legal Responses to Intimate Partner Femicide in
Scotland |
title_short | Reflecting on Legal Responses to Intimate Partner Femicide in
Scotland |
title_sort | reflecting on legal responses to intimate partner femicide in
scotland |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9896526/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35989666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778012221094068 |
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