The honeymoon killer : plea bargaining and intimate femicide : a response to Watson
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01/01/2010
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Resumo |
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 Watson as a framework for analysis, this article examines some of the limitations of an inefficient justice system, with a particular focus on the private nature of the plea bargaining process, and the potentially favourable representations and sentencing of men who kill a female intimate partner. The authors argue that the need to respond to court inefficiency and under-resourcing in the criminal courts creates pressures that can result in a desire for increased efficiency being prioritised above other justice concerns, and this allows for existing flaws within the operation of the criminal justice system to be exacerbated, and excused. |
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eng |
Publicador |
Legal Service Bulletin Co-operative |
Relação |
http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30043976/fitzgibbon-honeymoonkiller-2010.pdf http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=201101502;res=APAFT |
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20I0, Legal Service Bulletin Co-operative |
Palavras-Chave | #plea bargain #intimate femicide |
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Journal Article |