Women’s Fatal Use of Force: criminalised survivors & practitioner insights Feminist research has documented the ways in which women who…
Corruption is a problem in prisons about which we hear very little, except when there is an escape from custody…
Dr Danielle Tyson has co-authored an article with Monash Criminology PhD candidate Maddy Ulbrick and Dr Asher Flynn (Department of…
By Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Monash University) and Dr Wendy O'Brien
Queensland’s Court of Appeal on Tuesday ruled to downgrade Gerard Baden-Clay’s murder conviction for the April 2012 killing of his…
By Jude McCulloch, Kate Fitz-Gibbon and JaneMaree Maher The increasing regularity of fatal violence against women – 63 deaths so…
Deakin criminologist Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Monash University Associate Professor JaneMaree Maher have co-authored an article on the feminist judging…
Deakin criminologist Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon has been awarded a 2015 General Grant by the Victorian Women’s Trust. Kate’s project, ‘The killing…
Deakin criminologist Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon has received a grant to examine legal responses to one-punch homicide as part of the…
In the UK, men can no longer claim they were provoked by jealousy into killing their partner. Our research published…
Yesterday the Australian High Court handed down their judgment in R v Lindsay, a South Australian homicide case that is set to reignite…
Last week Deakin criminologist, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, was invited to attend a two-day workshop on ‘Life Imprisonment and Human Rights’…
This article was originally published on The Conversation on 27 February 2015. To read the original article, click here. Explainer: Victoria’s Royal Commission…
This article was originally published on The Conversation on 27 October 2014. To read the original article, click here. The recent killing of…
This article was first written by Kate Fitz-Gibbon and published on The Conversation. The law’s response to lethal domestic violence…
This week the British Society of Criminology conference is being hosted by the University of Liverpool School of Law and…