Deakin criminologist Kate Fitz-Gibbon receives prestigious Churchill Fellowship
Criminology lecturer Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon has been awarded the prestigious Peter Mitchell Churchill Fellowship for 2015. The Fellowship will allow…
Criminology lecturer Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon has been awarded the prestigious Peter Mitchell Churchill Fellowship for 2015. The Fellowship will allow…
In the UK, men can no longer claim they were provoked by jealousy into killing their partner. Our research published…
This article was first written by Kate Fitz-Gibbon and published on The Conversation. The law’s response to lethal domestic violence…
This article is authored by Kate Fitz-Gibbon and was first published on The Conversation on 26th June 2014. Victorian attorney-general…
By Kate Fitz-Gibbon In 1990/91, over a five-month period, three children were murdered in the small town of Bowraville, New…
In today’s Sydney Morning Herald, Deakin criminologist Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon has authored an op-ed encouraging the new NSW Premier, Mike…
On Friday, Yassir Ibrahim Mohamed Hassan was sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court to a maximum term of 12 years imprisonment,…
In NSW Parliament today Fred Nile introduced the Crimes Amendment (Provocation) Bill 2014 [NSW]. While debate was adjourned, several parliamentary…
The rape and murder of Jill Meagher in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick in September 2012 was as horrible a crime as could…
The NSW Government has released a Draft Bill and Discussion Paper recommending that a reformed version of the provocation defence be retained with significant…
On Thursday 3rd October the Victorian Attorney-General Robert Clark delivered the Melbourne University Law School and Victorian Law Foundation Law Oration…
This month the Home Secretary Theresa May MP announced a major review in England and Wales of how police respond…
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon’s new book “A Second Chance for Justice: The Prosecutions of Gabe Watson for the death of Tina…