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• Title:Homicide law reform in Victoria : retrospect and prospects / editors, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Arie Freiberg ; foreword, Rob Hulls.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Fitz-Gibbon, Kate (Lecturer in criminology), editor.
  Freiberg, Arie, editor.
  Hulls, Rob, writer of foreword.
  
• Published/Created:Sydney : The Federation Press, 2015.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KUG404 .H66 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Homicide--Law and legislation--Australia--Victoria.
  Law reform--Australia--Victoria.
  Legislative amendments--Australia--Victoria.
  
• Description:xxiii, 198 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:The Commissions Final Report recommended major changes to the law of homicide in Victoria and in 2005, the Victorian government responded to the 56 recommendations by implementing the largest package of homicide law reforms since the abolition of the death penalty.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781862879881 paperback
  1862879885 paperback
  
• Contents:Introduction: Homicide law reform in Victoria : retrospect and prospects / Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Arie Freiberg
  The more things change the more they stay the same : homicide law reform in Victoria / Marcia Neave
  Legal culture, professional education and homicide law reform / Felicity Hampel
  Law reform and the media : (re)figuring responsibility / Jenny Morgan
  Homicide law reform, provocation and sentencing / Arie Freiberg, Karen Gleb and Felicity Stewart
  The effects of the 2005 reforms on legal responses to women who kill intimate partners / Danielle Tyson, Debbie Kirkwood, Mandy McKenzie and Bronwyn Naylor
  Social framework evidence : its interpretation and application in Victoria and beyond / Heather Douglas
  When self-defence fails / Elizabeth Sheehy, Julie Stubbs and Julia Tolmie
  The offence of defensive homicide : lessons learned from failed law reform / Kate Fitz-Gibbon
  Simplifying homicide laws for complex situations / Greg Byrne
  Reform and codification of the law of homicide : reflections on the Victorian experience / Ian Leader-Elliott.