This book examines the English criminal laws
response to murder cases from the nineteenth century
to the present day. In particular the book looks at
the laws inability to deal appropriately with those
cases defined as domestic homicide, where persons
who having faced abuse by their current or former
partner find themselves killing their abuser and
face a murder conviction. Whilst the English legal
system has a structure to deal with murder cases,
our culture has become more aware of and less
tolerant of domestic violence and the apparent
inexplicable indifference that our homicide...