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LINKS AND SOURCES

Defence of Provocation

The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. Response to the Department of Justice re: Reforming Criminal Code Defences, Provocation, Self-Defence and Defence of Property.
                       http://www.elizabethfry.ca/Response/cover.htm

Côté, Andrée. The Defence of Provocation and Domestic Femicide. University of Montreal. Montreal: Faculty of Law, 1994. (Translation by Eleanor Paul)

Côté, Andrée, Elizabeth Sheehy, and Diana Majury. Stop Excusing Violence Against Women. National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL), 2000.
                        http://www.nawl.ca/provocation.htm

Galloway, Sheila and Joanne St. Lewis, Reforming the Defence of Provocation. Ontario Women’s Directorate, 1994.  (This paper is available at the National Library of Canada, the Manitoba Culture Library, McMaster University, and the University of Saskatchewan Library. We were unable to locate a Library of Congress call number for this item.)

Government of Canada, Department of Justice. The Provocation Defence.
                      http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/cons/rccd/partie1p1.html 

Government of Canada, Department of Justice. The Provocation Defence.Reforming Criminal Code Defences.
                      http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/cons/rccd/index.html

Horder, Jeremy. Provocation and Responsibility. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

National Women's Justice Coalition Inc. (Australia)   The Women Who Kill in Self-Defence Campaign. 1998 
                     http://www.nwjc.org.au/mccode.htm        

Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Paper on Provocation, Self-Defence, and Defence of Property. 1998 
                      http://www.gov.ns.ca/staw/Provocat.htm

Sheehy, Elizabeth (1994) Reforming the Defence of Provocation, Ontario Women's Directorate, unpublished report.

Sheehy, Elizabeth (1995) What Would a Women's Law of Self-Defence Look Like?, Ontario Women's Directorate, unpublished report.

 

Violence Against Women

Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children,  Ontario, Canada  
                       http://www.uwo.ca/violence

Crawford, Maria and Rosemary Gartner. Woman Killing: Intimate Femicide in Ontario, 1974-1990.  Women We Honour Action Committee, 1992.

De Becker, Gavin.  The Gift of Fear And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence.  New York, Dell Publishing, 1977

Jacobson, Neil S. and John M. Gottman. When Men Batter Women: New Insights Into Ending Abusive Relationships. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. (Library of Congress call number: HV 6626.2. J33 1998)

Women’s Issues and Social Empowerment (W.I.S.E.)
                      Domestic Violence Information Material
                      http://www.infoxchange.net.au/wise/DVIM/index.htm
                      Myths about Domestic Violence
                      http://www.infoxchange.net.au/wise/DVIM/DVMyths.htm

 

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

           Article 7: Legal Rights: Life, liberty, and security of person
                        http://canada.justice.gc.ca/Loireg/charte/const_en.html#juridiques
           Article 15:Equality Rights: Equality before and under the law and equal
                        protection and benefit of the law
                        http://canada.justice.gc.ca/Loireg/charte/const_en.html#egalite

 

 

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