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Flow Charts Plan, Domestic abuse, Prison as a woman - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Point 2: How the Police force is failing women
        
        Point 3: How the British Legal System is failing women in sentancing and occupation
        
        Point 4: The timeline of discrimination
        
        Abolition of the defiance of provocation, defense to rape In 2009 Coroners and Justice Act abolished the old common law defense of provocation and in its place introduced loss of control
        
        Serious crime act 2015 introduced a new offence, to combat domsetic abuse
        
        2017 issues with lack of training from the police force.
        
        Revenge porn
        
        now an offence under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003.
        
        Conclusion
        
        How far the law is gender egalitarian
        
        Draw all ideas together
        
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        What's currently being put in place
        
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        Fairly egalitarian, however the law is at constant development and is changing in a positive way
        
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        Bedroom tax
        
        Case taken to ECHR due to taking away the right to private and victims used the spare rom as a safe space when their husband was abusive to call the police
        
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        Sexual Offences Act the government changed the law to Helena Kennedy suggestion of an objective test for consent .
        
        Used to be a loophole in homicide were a child was killed and neither parent took responsibility therefore both be acquitted due to lack of evidence. A change in the law in 2004 makes it a crime carrying 14 years to allow a child to die while in your care.
        
        Battered Woman who remains in terror of her partner will be convicted rather then tell the truth about his culpability
        
        Jury duty
        
        Jury stepping down
        
        Husbands behavior due to explicit sexual images
        
        Helena Kennedy experience
        
        Eliza Orme
        
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        Information from this video,....About the First 100 Years is an ambitious video history project documenting the journey of women in the legal profession, from 1919 to present day supported by the Law Society
        
        Becoming lawyers
        
        , the Bebb v Law Society case had reconfirmed that women were not allowed to join the profession as they were not classified as ‘persons’ under the Solicitors Act 1843.
        
        Prison as a woman
        
        Police abusing their power
        
        Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Baroness Kennedy said: “We have to be looking at male behaviour more generally, but the police certainly have to be taking women’s complaints more seriously than they have done.“This has been going on for many, many years and I’m rather tired of hearing police forces saying we’re going to learn lessons from some tragedy.
        
        Sarah Evard 2021
        
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr78x0e5yzo
        
        Surrey policemen
        
        Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis v DSD, NBV (2015)
        
        Treatment of women by the police for the John Warboys case, their ill treatment leading to article 3.
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/05/how-the-establishment-failed-victims-of-black-cab-rapist-john-worboys
        
        Sally Emery
        
        Falsely accused of murdering her children, she spent months in prison and when she came home she was found dead as she couldnt come to terms with the false accusation
        
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        Husbands
      - Embedded expectations against women and the female stereotype
        
        Reliability on male dominance, absence of female independence
        
        Consent case of Brown
        
        Alan Wilson was charged under s 47 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 for assault. He branded his initials into his wife’s buttocks with a hot knife. It was further held that consensual activity between a husband and wife in the privacy of their own home was not a matter for criminal investigation or conviction. Therefore, consent was a valid defence to s 47. The appeal was allowed and the conviction was quashed.
        
        Family ties and financal reliability
        
        https://revolving-doors.org.uk/women-criminal-justice-double-standards/
        
        Womens loyalty to their children
        
        Ben Butler killed his six year old daughter, her mother did not report the abuse, as she herself was subject to violent physical and verbal attacks from her husband. she received 42 months in prison for child cruelty and perverting the course of justice
        
        Liberal democrat MP left his wife, she slipped to the media information that she had been taking her husbands speeding points to prevent him looosing his license.
        
        'The good wife' H.K
      - Vulnerability
        
        Police, lawyers and judges have the idea an abused woman should be submissive and coward. Case of Mustafa Bashir, in which he received an 18 month suspended sentence and the judge was not convinced his wife was vulnerable to domestic abuse.
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        Killed for snoring
        
        Raymond Bentley put a cushion over his wife Colleen's face, put his hand round her neck and squeezed, telling her: "I need to kill you, I want you to die, I've had enough of you," Leeds Crown Court was told.
        
        Police abusing power
        
        In October 2004, Two police officers from Surrey stood on trial for rape, after picking up a woman after she was assaulted in a nightclub. They took her to her home where here children were sleeping and raped her. They pleaded not guilty, even though semen matched their DNA which was found on her skirt. They were acquitted
        
        bedroom tax
        
        2012 the government changed the level of housing benefit given to people on low incomes, reducing payments for those who had more bedrooms than they strictly needed. Critics of the policy called it the “bedroom tax”. One lady has a spare room to protect herself from her abusive ex partner, this room was take away there she became extremely vulnerable and made her more susceptible to harm
        
        Ahluwalia
        
        The appellant poured petrol and caustic soda on to her sleeping husband and then set fire to him. He died six days later from his injuries. The couple had an arranged marriage and the husband had been violent and abusive throughout the marriage. He was also having an affair. On the night of the killing he had threatened to hit her with an iron and told her that he would beat her the next day if she did not provide him with money. At her trial she admitted killing her husband but raised the defense of provocation however, the jury convicted her of murder. She appealed on the grounds that the judge's direction to the jury relating to provocation was wrong and she also raised the defence of diminished responsibility
      - Purpose of the law and what its supposed to achieve
        
        Justice which is fundamental for mankind. Follows the idea of A.V Dicey's Rule Of Law, in which prevents the abuse of state power and ensures legal rights are used in practice and can apply to all.
- - - - majority of sentenced female prisoners 84% are held for non violent offences despite the constant refrain that prison should really only be used for violent serious crime
    - - Women being subjected to their hormones was the traditional way of explaining otherwise inexplicable behaviour