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- Title
JUSTICE BETTY KING: A STUDY OF FEMINIST JUDGING IN ACTION.
- Authors
HUNTER, ROSEMARY; TYSON, DANIELLE
- Abstract
The article focuses on the judicial life of Betty King, former judge at Supreme Court of Victoria with her sentencing decisions in domestic homicide and domestic violence cases. It mentions feminist legal scholars and criminologists have long been interested in what sentencing remarks may reveal about judicial understandings of and attitudes towards domestic violence. It also mentions instances of feminist judging with support for women's rights to equality, autonomy and safety.
- Subjects
KING, Betty; VICTORIA. Supreme Court; CRIMINAL sentencing; HOMICIDE; DOMESTIC violence; CRIMINOLOGISTS; WOMEN'S rights
- Publication
University of New South Wales Law Journal, 2017, Vol 40, Issue 2, p778
- ISSN
0313-0096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.53637/ywkr2894