{"title":"Women Who Kill Their Abusive Intimate Partners in Non-Confrontational Circumstances - The Need for German Criminal Law Reform","authors":"Kerstin Braun","doi":"10.5204/ijcjsd.3571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3571","url":null,"abstract":"To acknowledge the lived realities of women who kill their abusive partners when they are sleeping or inattentive, several jurisdictions have reformed or reinterpreted their criminal laws. Some have introduced specific domestic violence defences while others construe existing defences more broadly in recognition of the circumstances under which abused women kill. Germany, however, has not adopted these approaches. Through analysis of the 2003 Bundesgerichtshof’s, the highest court of ordinary jurisdiction in Germany, so-called ‘family tyrant’ judgment, this article examines the treatment of women who kill their abusers in the German criminal justice system. The article concludes that law reform is necessary to better acknowledge the situation of female victims who kill their abusive intimate partners in non-confrontational circumstances in response to long-term domestic violence.","PeriodicalId":504352,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy","volume":"39 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141815082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Kiss Delivered as a Punch”: Coercively Controlling Tactics in Australian Women’s Same-Gender Intimate Relationships","authors":"Melissa Gampe, Samantha Jeffries, Zoe Rathus","doi":"10.5204/ijcjsd.3254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3254","url":null,"abstract":"In 2007, Evan Stark consolidated decades of feminist scholarship and advocacy on intimate partner violence (IPV) into a framework he coined “coercive control” (Stark 2007). Stark’s model was initially heteronormative. He later contended that heteropatriarchy may condition abuse in women’s intimate relationships with other women, but more research was needed to clearly understand how coercive control manifests beyond heterosexuality (Stark and Hester 2019). In this paper, we utilise the voices of 18 Australian same-gender attracted women who experienced IPV in intimate relationships with other women. The participants’ narratives, revealed through this qualitative method, provide insights into perpetrator tactics of coercive control in these relationships. Situating these stratagems within Stark’s framework, we gain a deeper understanding of this, often invisible, manifestation of coercive control. This study is essential and timely because, since Stark (2007) published his book, several countries have criminalised coercive control and some states in Australia have recently followed suit. ","PeriodicalId":504352,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy","volume":"24 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141711210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rejoinder to a Book Review","authors":"Stephanie C Kane, Steven Kohm","doi":"10.5204/ijcjsd.3555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3555","url":null,"abstract":"In Volume 12(3) 2023 Steven Kohm reviewed Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control, by Stephanie C Kane.\u0000Kohm S (2023) Review of Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control, by Stephanie C Kane. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 12(3): 127-129. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3043\u0000In 2024, the author Stephanie C Kane responded to the book review via contact with the editors. In accordance with the Journal policies, the 'Author Reply to Review' and the 'Reviewers Reply to Author's Reply to Review' was published (6 June 2024).","PeriodicalId":504352,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy","volume":"29 1‐2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141381122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth Sheehy, Kim Pate, Helen Naslund, Matthew Behrens, Mona Duckett, Jana G. Pruden
{"title":"The Struggle for Justice for Battered Women: Still a Colossal Work in Progress, as Exemplified by Helen Naslund’s Case","authors":"Elizabeth Sheehy, Kim Pate, Helen Naslund, Matthew Behrens, Mona Duckett, Jana G. Pruden","doi":"10.5204/ijcjsd.3479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3479","url":null,"abstract":"This article recounts the campaign for justice for Helen Naslund, a Canadian woman who lived in rural Alberta when she killed her abusive husband Miles in 2011 as he slept. Rather than go to trial on self-defence, on the advice of counsel Helen pled guilty to manslaughter and then, consequent to a joint submission on sentencing made with the Crown, she was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2020, the longest sentence on record for such a woman in Canada. The contributors to Helen’s journey, including Helen herself, a Senator, an academic, an activist, a lawyer and a journalist, all describe the roles they played in supporting Helen’s successful appeal against sentence in 2022 and her release from prison in 2023.","PeriodicalId":504352,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy","volume":"35 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140975531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Political Economy of the Mobuoy Illegal Dump in Northern Ireland: A Green Criminology Perspective","authors":"Juneseo Hwang","doi":"10.5204/ijcjsd.2842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.2842","url":null,"abstract":"In 2012, the discovery of the Mobuoy illegal dump in Northern Ireland came to the attention of society as a shocking scandal. This was not only because the dump (516,000 tonnes of waste) was possibly one of the largest illegal dumps in Europe, but also because it exposed how the waste-management system in Northern Ireland was vulnerable to criminality and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency incapable of crime prevention and enforcement. However, it would be too narrow to focus criticisms solely on a particular governmental agency. From a green criminology perspective, this article provides a political economic analysis of the Mobuoy illegal dump and demonstrates the country’s environmental management system, as well as political resistance against environmental governance reforms that may create favourable conditions for criminal groups to seek financial gains through environmental crime in Northern Ireland.","PeriodicalId":504352,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy","volume":"2 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140724446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corey S. Shdaimah, Chrysanthi S. Leon, and Shelly A. Wiechelt (2023) The Compassionate Court? Support, Surveillance, and Survival in Prostitution Diversion Programs. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press","authors":"Sean Eickhoff","doi":"10.5204/ijcjsd.3394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3394","url":null,"abstract":"Sean Eickhoff reviews The Compassionate Court? Support, Surveillance, and Survival in Prostitution Diversion Programs by Corey S. Shdaimah, Chrysanthi S. Leon, and Shelly A. Wieche","PeriodicalId":504352,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy","volume":"2 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140228992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stacy Banwell (2023) The War Against Nonhuman Animals: A Non-Speciesist Understanding of Gendered Reproductive Violence. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan","authors":"Stefano Porfido","doi":"10.5204/ijcjsd.3373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3373","url":null,"abstract":"Stefano Porfido reviews The War Against Nonhuman Animals: A Non-Speciesist Understanding of Gendered Reproductive Violence by Stacy Banwell.","PeriodicalId":504352,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy","volume":"32 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140247749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Synopsis of Crimes in the South African Beekeeping Industry: Contextualising the Industry Harms, Malpractices, and Risks","authors":"Lindi Hendricks, T. Masehela","doi":"10.5204/ijcjsd.3247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3247","url":null,"abstract":"Honeybee species have received widespread attention of late, concerning various threats and criminal activity within the industry. As beekeeping involves human–environment interactions, it is situated at the interface between the human social system and the ecosystem. This is primarily owing to the role of pollination in regulating the ecosystem and its implications for global food security. Seed dispersal is also important for biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability. However, capitalistic economic drivers continue to mismanage natural resources, threatening beekeepers, and honeybee species. This article sheds light on two major issues in the beekeeping industry in South Africa: hive theft and vandalism, and malpractices related to eco-labelled honey. It discusses these as instances of green crimes and provides insights into their implications.","PeriodicalId":504352,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy","volume":"121 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140088162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Green Criminology in the Niger Delta of Nigeria: Why African Women’s Voices Matter","authors":"Zainab Mai-bornu","doi":"10.5204/ijcjsd.3248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3248","url":null,"abstract":"Oil spills in resource-rich areas in Africa have led to irreversible environmental degradation, resulting in social conflicts that have greatly affected women. Yet, the experiences of ordinary women affected by resource extraction activities in the Global South are often marginalised. Recent calls for the southernising of criminology are gaining momentum and could be linked to calls for rethinking how knowledge about Africa is produced, including in its gendered dimensions. For example, in what ways do women’s voices matter on issues related to the environment in the Niger Delta? And how do their voices intersect with green criminological theories? This article focuses on amplifying affected women’s lived experiences in the resource-rich area of the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Using data collected between 2019 and 2022 through participatory video, focus group discussions, and in-depth interviews, the paper underscores the need to give women a voice on matters that affect the environment, and peace and war dynamics.","PeriodicalId":504352,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy","volume":"86 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140084847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voices from the Frontlines in the Okavango River Basin: Towards a Cooperative Model of Environmental Activism in the Global South","authors":"Annette Hübschle, Kakuna Kerina, Emmanuel Mogende, Kekgaoditse Suping","doi":"10.5204/ijcjsd.3317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3317","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the interplay between local activism and external and elite actors in response to ReconAfrica's oil and gas exploration activities in Namibia's Kavango and Botswana's Okavango Delta regions. The research demonstrates local communities’ challenges with confronting environmental degradation, unfulfilled promises, and legal transgressions while striving to protect their ancestral lands and rights. The study, grounded in Southern green criminology, highlights the power imbalances between Northern corporations and Southern territories, underscoring the exploitation and marginalisation of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. It advocates for genuine collaboration and prioritising local perspectives in environmental activism, calling for a shift in power dynamics to ensure equitable and sustainable outcomes. This cooperative model integrates local knowledge systems, amplifies Indigenous voices, and aligns environmental campaigns with broader social justice concerns. The traditional externally driven approaches are challenged, while ethical and inclusive environmental activism is also promoted.","PeriodicalId":504352,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy","volume":"105 29","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140088853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}