Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Fitz-Gibbon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitz-Gibbon |
| SIGNATURE | FITZ-GIBBON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cause of death: Femicide
Labelled ‘the shadow pandemic’ by UN Women, violence against women received considerable global public attention during 2020–21. Underpinning this moment of public concern, there lies a substantial history of efforts to document the nature of, and campaign against, the extent of violence against women globally. This is also the case in relation to femicide. Whilst we recognise that this is a contested term, for the purposes of this paper we use f…
Ensuring access to justice for women experiencing family violence beyond the pandemic
Improving justice responses for victims of intimate partner violence: Examining the Merits of the Provision of Independent Legal Representation
Justice processes have long been criticised for their inability to meet the needs of intimate partner violence victims and provide remedies that facilitate recovery. Despite a bevy of victim-oriented reforms, victims continue to report dissatisfaction in their engagement with the legal process. Recognising the failures of policy responses to date, the Royal Commission into Family Violence (2016) in Victoria, Australia, sought to reimagine justice…
Mothering through and in Violence: Discourses of the 'Good Mother
Domestic and family violence research recognises mothering is impacted by and implicated in abusive relationships and increasingly attends to the negative impacts of domestic and family violence on children, whether or not they are direct targets of perpetrator abuse. Contemporary research also situates the undermining of the mother/child relationship as common in abusive relationships. Bringing together data from two projects - one investigating…
The Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development
This volume brings together a diverse collection of essays that critically examine issues relating to crime and justice in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Chapters examine the issues that practitioners face in working to advance this agenda and the possibilities that exist to advance sustainable development outcomes.
Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development
The Emerald Handbook of Feminism, Criminology and Social Change
Comprehensive and current, this handbook combines a wide range of international contributors to chart the uneasy relationship between feminism, criminology and victimology. It explores both the historical and contemporary questions posed by feminist work and is essential reading for anyone interested in feminism, criminology and social change
Justice perspectives of women with disability: An Australian story
The article explores the meaning of ‘justice’ for women with disability who have experienced and reported violent crimes, typically, sexual assault and family violence. It contributes to the small body of literature that considers justice as articulated by those who have experienced violence and represents the only published research that brings to the fore perspectives on justice from the viewpoint of women with disability. Based on interviews a…
The use of protection orders in response to adolescent family violence: Mapping divergent Australian approaches and the merits of this criminal justice intervention
Several Australian state and territory jurisdictions permit parents of adolescents using violence to be listed as affected persons on a family violence protection order (the notable exceptions being Queensland and Tasmania), however, as yet there is minimal understanding of whether this is an effective response to this complex form of family violence. In seeking to address this gap in current knowledge, this paper has two aims. It analyses Austra…
The Merits of Restricting Provocation to Indictable Offences: A Critical Analysis of Provocation Law Reform in Canada and New South Wales, Australia
Le présent article compare le processus et le contenu des réformes de la défense partielle de provocation menées en Nouvelle-Galles-du-Sud, Australie, en 2014 et au Canada en 2015. Bien que ces deux gouvernements aient adopté des lois qui limitent de la même façon l’utilisation de cette défense, l’origine de ces réformes et leurs processus sont différents. Le présent article analyse la défense réformée du point de vue de son incidence sur les tro…
Lone Wolf Terrorism Through a Gendered Lens: Men Turning Violent or Violent Men Behaving Violently
Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
This book examines the relationship between gender and crime and explores both the gendered nature of crime alongside the gendered nature of criminal victimisation. Covering theory, policy and practice, this new edition has been fully revised to reflect the wider changes, development and influence of gendered thinking in these areas. It brings together a range of key issues, including: Theories and concepts in feminist criminology, Gender and vic…
Can Human Rights Standards Counter Australia’s Punitive Youth Justice Practices
Recent practices in the administration of youth justice across Australian state and territory jurisdictions reveal a powerful tension between the punitive imperative of “tough on crime” political populism, and internationally agreed minimum standards relevant to the treatment of children. In questioning the extent to which human rights standards can and should be used as a useful tool to counter punitive youth justice practices, this article iden…
The Treatment of Australian Children in Detention: A Human Rights Law Analysis of Media Coverage in the Wake of Abuses at the Don Dale Detention Centre
In July 2016 harrowing images of a child being forcibly restrained in Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Australia’s Northern Territory shone a national spotlight on the conditions experienced by some young persons in custody. The subsequent Royal Commission provides an important opportunity for an independent body with expansive powers to examine the human rights violations that some youth experience in detention. This article examines Australia…
Criminology, gender and security in the Australian context: Making women’s lives matter
This article examines how it might be possible to make women’s lives matter in contemporary criminological understandings of security. In doing so it considers the conceptual complexity of security, and reflects on the criminological engagement with that complexity and the feminist contribution to it paying particular attention to current concerns with everyday security. The article deploys the contemporary Australian policy agenda on family viol…
Criminology and the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The Need for Support and Critique
The UN Sustainable Development Goals address a number of criminological issues. This article accounts for why criminologists should contribute to this agenda in a way that might benefit the international development community. We acknowledge a heightened risk of crime in parts of the Global South but argue criminologists should cautiously embrace this agenda as a platform for achieving human and sustainable development outcomes. Supporting this a…
Homicide, Gender and Responsibility: An International Perspective
Minimum sentencing for murder in England and Wales: A critical examination 10 years after the Criminal Justice Act 2003
In 2003, the UK Parliament introduced a presumptive minimum sentencing scheme for the offence of murder. Schedule 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 sought to achieve greater consistency in the setting of minimum terms of imprisonment, while also providing a clear directive to judges on the need to punish and deter particularly aggravating contexts of intentional lethal violence. This article critically analyses the effects of this approach to s…
Cemented in their cells’: A human rights analysis of Blessington, Elliott and the life imprisonment of children in New South Wales
Keywords:: life without parolechildren's rightssentencingBronson BlessingtonMatthew ElliottJanine Balding
The Naming of Child Homicide Offenders in England and Wales: The need for a Change in Law and Practice
Judicial decisions about whether or not to publicly name child homicide offenders have long animated debate in the United Kingdom and internationally. This article draws on case law and in-depth interviews conducted with members of the English criminal justice system to critically analyse the viability of current domestic legislation in the context of the UK’s international human rights obligations. The article identifies ambiguities surrounding …
Homicide Law Reform, Gender and the Provocation Defence: A Comparative Perspective
n\t\t\t\t\t The operation of the partial defence of provocation has animated significant debate for more than two decades among scholars, legal practitioners, politicians and the community. In recognition of the injustices that result from its operation, criminal justice systems worldwide have conducted reviews of the law of provocation and have implemented divergent reforms targeted at minimizing the influence of gender bias in the law's operati…
The Victorian Operation of Defensive Homicide: Examining the Delegitimisation of Victims in the Criminal Court System
In November 2005, the Victorian government implemented a new offence of defensive homicide, alongside the abolition of the partial defence of provocation. This new category of homicide was introduced not as a replacement for the abolished provocation defence, but rather as a ‘safety net’ between murder and an acquittal for women who kill in response to prolonged family violence. Since its implementation, the operation of this new offence has alre…
The Honeymoon Killer: Plea Bargaining and Intimate Femicide — A Response to Watson
In October 2003, US citizen Christina Thomas died while scuba diving on Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef. Following over five years of delays, her husband David Watson accepted a plea bargain to which he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of criminal negligence. Watson was initially sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment, suspended after 12 months, however this was later increased on appeal to suspension after 18 months. Using Wa…
Criminology and the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The Need for Support and Critique
The UN Sustainable Development Goals address a number of criminological issues. This article accounts for why criminologists should contribute to this agenda in a way that might benefit the international development community. We acknowledge a heightened risk of crime in parts of the Global South but argue criminologists should cautiously embrace this agenda as a platform for achieving human and sustainable development outcomes. Supporting this a…
Criminology, gender and security in the Australian context: Making women’s lives matter
This article examines how it might be possible to make women’s lives matter in contemporary criminological understandings of security. In doing so it considers the conceptual complexity of security, and reflects on the criminological engagement with that complexity and the feminist contribution to it paying particular attention to current concerns with everyday security. The article deploys the contemporary Australian policy agenda on family viol…
Lone Wolf Terrorism Through a Gendered Lens: Men Turning Violent or Violent Men Behaving Violently
Justice perspectives of women with disability: An Australian story
The article explores the meaning of ‘justice’ for women with disability who have experienced and reported violent crimes, typically, sexual assault and family violence. It contributes to the small body of literature that considers justice as articulated by those who have experienced violence and represents the only published research that brings to the fore perspectives on justice from the viewpoint of women with disability. Based on interviews a…
Mothering through and in Violence: Discourses of the 'Good Mother
Domestic and family violence research recognises mothering is impacted by and implicated in abusive relationships and increasingly attends to the negative impacts of domestic and family violence on children, whether or not they are direct targets of perpetrator abuse. Contemporary research also situates the undermining of the mother/child relationship as common in abusive relationships. Bringing together data from two projects - one investigating…
The Treatment of Australian Children in Detention: A Human Rights Law Analysis of Media Coverage in the Wake of Abuses at the Don Dale Detention Centre
In July 2016 harrowing images of a child being forcibly restrained in Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Australia’s Northern Territory shone a national spotlight on the conditions experienced by some young persons in custody. The subsequent Royal Commission provides an important opportunity for an independent body with expansive powers to examine the human rights violations that some youth experience in detention. This article examines Australia…
Minimum sentencing for murder in England and Wales: A critical examination 10 years after the Criminal Justice Act 2003
In 2003, the UK Parliament introduced a presumptive minimum sentencing scheme for the offence of murder. Schedule 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 sought to achieve greater consistency in the setting of minimum terms of imprisonment, while also providing a clear directive to judges on the need to punish and deter particularly aggravating contexts of intentional lethal violence. This article critically analyses the effects of this approach to s…
Ensuring access to justice for women experiencing family violence beyond the pandemic
The Merits of Restricting Provocation to Indictable Offences: A Critical Analysis of Provocation Law Reform in Canada and New South Wales, Australia
Le présent article compare le processus et le contenu des réformes de la défense partielle de provocation menées en Nouvelle-Galles-du-Sud, Australie, en 2014 et au Canada en 2015. Bien que ces deux gouvernements aient adopté des lois qui limitent de la même façon l’utilisation de cette défense, l’origine de ces réformes et leurs processus sont différents. Le présent article analyse la défense réformée du point de vue de son incidence sur les tro…
The Honeymoon Killer: Plea Bargaining and Intimate Femicide — A Response to Watson
In October 2003, US citizen Christina Thomas died while scuba diving on Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef. Following over five years of delays, her husband David Watson accepted a plea bargain to which he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of criminal negligence. Watson was initially sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment, suspended after 12 months, however this was later increased on appeal to suspension after 18 months. Using Wa…
The Victorian Operation of Defensive Homicide: Examining the Delegitimisation of Victims in the Criminal Court System
In November 2005, the Victorian government implemented a new offence of defensive homicide, alongside the abolition of the partial defence of provocation. This new category of homicide was introduced not as a replacement for the abolished provocation defence, but rather as a ‘safety net’ between murder and an acquittal for women who kill in response to prolonged family violence. Since its implementation, the operation of this new offence has alre…
Homicide Law Reform, Gender and the Provocation Defence: A Comparative Perspective
n\t\t\t\t\t The operation of the partial defence of provocation has animated significant debate for more than two decades among scholars, legal practitioners, politicians and the community. In recognition of the injustices that result from its operation, criminal justice systems worldwide have conducted reviews of the law of provocation and have implemented divergent reforms targeted at minimizing the influence of gender bias in the law's operati…
Homicide, Gender and Responsibility: An International Perspective
Minimum sentencing for murder in England and Wales: A critical examination 10 years after the Criminal Justice Act 2003
In 2003, the UK Parliament introduced a presumptive minimum sentencing scheme for the offence of murder. Schedule 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 sought to achieve greater consistency in the setting of minimum terms of imprisonment, while also providing a clear directive to judges on the need to punish and deter particularly aggravating contexts of intentional lethal violence. This article critically analyses the effects of this approach to s…
Cemented in their cells’: A human rights analysis of Blessington, Elliott and the life imprisonment of children in New South Wales
Keywords:: life without parolechildren's rightssentencingBronson BlessingtonMatthew ElliottJanine Balding
The Naming of Child Homicide Offenders in England and Wales: The need for a Change in Law and Practice
Judicial decisions about whether or not to publicly name child homicide offenders have long animated debate in the United Kingdom and internationally. This article draws on case law and in-depth interviews conducted with members of the English criminal justice system to critically analyse the viability of current domestic legislation in the context of the UK’s international human rights obligations. The article identifies ambiguities surrounding …
Criminology, gender and security in the Australian context: Making women’s lives matter
This article examines how it might be possible to make women’s lives matter in contemporary criminological understandings of security. In doing so it considers the conceptual complexity of security, and reflects on the criminological engagement with that complexity and the feminist contribution to it paying particular attention to current concerns with everyday security. The article deploys the contemporary Australian policy agenda on family viol…
Criminology and the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The Need for Support and Critique
The UN Sustainable Development Goals address a number of criminological issues. This article accounts for why criminologists should contribute to this agenda in a way that might benefit the international development community. We acknowledge a heightened risk of crime in parts of the Global South but argue criminologists should cautiously embrace this agenda as a platform for achieving human and sustainable development outcomes. Supporting this a…
Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
This book examines the relationship between gender and crime and explores both the gendered nature of crime alongside the gendered nature of criminal victimisation. Covering theory, policy and practice, this new edition has been fully revised to reflect the wider changes, development and influence of gendered thinking in these areas. It brings together a range of key issues, including: Theories and concepts in feminist criminology, Gender and vic…
Can Human Rights Standards Counter Australia’s Punitive Youth Justice Practices
Recent practices in the administration of youth justice across Australian state and territory jurisdictions reveal a powerful tension between the punitive imperative of “tough on crime” political populism, and internationally agreed minimum standards relevant to the treatment of children. In questioning the extent to which human rights standards can and should be used as a useful tool to counter punitive youth justice practices, this article iden…
The Treatment of Australian Children in Detention: A Human Rights Law Analysis of Media Coverage in the Wake of Abuses at the Don Dale Detention Centre
In July 2016 harrowing images of a child being forcibly restrained in Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Australia’s Northern Territory shone a national spotlight on the conditions experienced by some young persons in custody. The subsequent Royal Commission provides an important opportunity for an independent body with expansive powers to examine the human rights violations that some youth experience in detention. This article examines Australia…
The use of protection orders in response to adolescent family violence: Mapping divergent Australian approaches and the merits of this criminal justice intervention
Several Australian state and territory jurisdictions permit parents of adolescents using violence to be listed as affected persons on a family violence protection order (the notable exceptions being Queensland and Tasmania), however, as yet there is minimal understanding of whether this is an effective response to this complex form of family violence. In seeking to address this gap in current knowledge, this paper has two aims. It analyses Austra…
The Merits of Restricting Provocation to Indictable Offences: A Critical Analysis of Provocation Law Reform in Canada and New South Wales, Australia
Le présent article compare le processus et le contenu des réformes de la défense partielle de provocation menées en Nouvelle-Galles-du-Sud, Australie, en 2014 et au Canada en 2015. Bien que ces deux gouvernements aient adopté des lois qui limitent de la même façon l’utilisation de cette défense, l’origine de ces réformes et leurs processus sont différents. Le présent article analyse la défense réformée du point de vue de son incidence sur les tro…
Lone Wolf Terrorism Through a Gendered Lens: Men Turning Violent or Violent Men Behaving Violently
The Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development
This volume brings together a diverse collection of essays that critically examine issues relating to crime and justice in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Chapters examine the issues that practitioners face in working to advance this agenda and the possibilities that exist to advance sustainable development outcomes.
Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development
The Emerald Handbook of Feminism, Criminology and Social Change
Comprehensive and current, this handbook combines a wide range of international contributors to chart the uneasy relationship between feminism, criminology and victimology. It explores both the historical and contemporary questions posed by feminist work and is essential reading for anyone interested in feminism, criminology and social change
Justice perspectives of women with disability: An Australian story
The article explores the meaning of ‘justice’ for women with disability who have experienced and reported violent crimes, typically, sexual assault and family violence. It contributes to the small body of literature that considers justice as articulated by those who have experienced violence and represents the only published research that brings to the fore perspectives on justice from the viewpoint of women with disability. Based on interviews a…
Ensuring access to justice for women experiencing family violence beyond the pandemic
Improving justice responses for victims of intimate partner violence: Examining the Merits of the Provision of Independent Legal Representation
Justice processes have long been criticised for their inability to meet the needs of intimate partner violence victims and provide remedies that facilitate recovery. Despite a bevy of victim-oriented reforms, victims continue to report dissatisfaction in their engagement with the legal process. Recognising the failures of policy responses to date, the Royal Commission into Family Violence (2016) in Victoria, Australia, sought to reimagine justice…
Mothering through and in Violence: Discourses of the 'Good Mother
Domestic and family violence research recognises mothering is impacted by and implicated in abusive relationships and increasingly attends to the negative impacts of domestic and family violence on children, whether or not they are direct targets of perpetrator abuse. Contemporary research also situates the undermining of the mother/child relationship as common in abusive relationships. Bringing together data from two projects - one investigating…
Cause of death: Femicide
Labelled ‘the shadow pandemic’ by UN Women, violence against women received considerable global public attention during 2020–21. Underpinning this moment of public concern, there lies a substantial history of efforts to document the nature of, and campaign against, the extent of violence against women globally. This is also the case in relation to femicide. Whilst we recognise that this is a contested term, for the purposes of this paper we use f…
Criminology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (13 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (12 works) · Economic Justice (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Poison control (9 works)