Advancing Socially Just Intimate Partner Violence Expert Testimony for Victim-Survivors Charged with Homicide: Critiquing the Old Bones of Knowledge

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Advancing Socially Just Intimate Partner Violence Expert Testimony for Victim-Survivors Charged with Homicide: Critiquing the Old Bones of Knowledge

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Auckland University of Technology

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Tuwhera

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In assessing whether victim-survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) were acting in self-defence in response to homicide charges, the criminal court favours disciplinary knowledges which erase social context and structural violence. This article argues that these factors are integral to understanding victim-survivors' experiences of IPV. The courts' overreliance on Euro-Western psych disciplines (psychiatry and psychology) that privilege neoliberal ideas of self and perpetuate flawed psyc...

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2024-12-02

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Smith, Rachel / Tolmie, Julia / Wepa, Dianne / Wilson, Denise

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https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/18420

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1602 Criminology / 1608 Sociology / 1801 Law / 4402 Criminology / 4410 Sociology / 4804 Law in context

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