The honeymoon killer : plea bargaining and intimate femicide : a response to Watson Flynn, Asher and Fitz-Gibbon, Kate 2010, The honeymoon killer : plea bargaining and intimate femicide : a response to Watson, Alternative law journal, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 203-207. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads fitzgibbon-honeymoonkiller-2010.pdf Published version application/pdf 1.36MB 192 Title The honeymoon killer : plea bargaining and intimate femicide : a response to Watson Author(s) Flynn, Asher Fitz-Gibbon, Kate Journal name Alternative law journal Volume number 35 Issue number 4 Start page 203 End page 207 Total pages 5 Publisher Legal Service Bulletin Co-operative Place of publication Melbourne, Vic Publication date 2010 ISSN 1037-969X Keyword(s) plea bargain intimate femicide Summary In October 2003, US citizen Christina Thomas died while scuba diving on Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef. Following over five years of delays, her husband David Watson accepted a plea bargain to which he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of criminal negligence. Watson was initially sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment, suspended after 12 months, however this was later increased on appeal to suspension after 18 months. Using Watson as a framework for analysis, this article examines some of the limitations of an inefficient justice system, with a particular focus on the private nature of the plea bargaining process, and the potentially favourable representations and sentencing of men who kill a female intimate partner. The authors argue that the need to respond to court inefficiency and under-resourcing in the criminal courts creates pressures that can result in a desire for increased efficiency being prioritised above other justice concerns, and this allows for existing flaws within the operation of the criminal justice system to be exacerbated, and excused. Language eng Field of Research 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure Socio Economic Objective 970118 Expanding Knowledge in Law and Legal Studies HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2010 Copyright notice ©20I0, Legal Service Bulletin Co-operative Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30043976 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Humanities and Social Sciences Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 05 Apr 2012, 11:18:11 EST Thu, 05 Apr 2012, 12:06:25 EST Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 16:26:31 EST Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 16:27:10 EST Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 16:27:57 EST Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 16:28:56 EST Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 16:31:48 EST Tue, 24 Apr 2012, 15:03:23 EST Thu, 13 Jun 2013, 09:22:53 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 13:22:42 EST Thu, 11 Dec 2014, 17:43:07 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 18:34:03 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 12:30:30 EST Mon, 22 Jan 2018, 14:04:48 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 18:05:40 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 1 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 269 Abstract Views, 192 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 05 Apr 2012, 11:17:54 EST by Kylie Koulkoudinas