Abstract In this article I consider the increasing use of “rough sex” defence by men who kill women in trials murder. demonstrating prevalence examine tactics pleading accident and traducing character dead invoking excuse that deceased consented to acts which contributed her death. impact strategy on jury determination return convictions for unlawful manslaughter rather than The notion these si...

The influence of decision task and deliberation style on the verdict of the juries. In the Kameda's Deliberation Style Model the emission of verdicts of responsibility when the deliberation style of the juries (elemental/compound) and the type of decision task (disjunctive/conjunctive) are jointly manipulated, is favoured in certain conditions. Given the consequences that these approaches could...

The study examined “gendered” and “general” factors associated with homicide using interviews men convicted of murder or manslaughter in Australia. We compared committing intimate partner femicide (IPF; n = 68) killing female non-intimate partners (MF; 44) male (MM; 135). They shared developmental socio-economic characteristics. MM reported extensive criminal histories serious substance problem...