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Is law justice to women? Homicide is the general term used to cover the different changes involved when one human being kills another. Murder is one type of homicide and is distinguishable from the others in that it is necessary to prove the intention to kill or seriously injure. A killing with such intention can sometimes be justified. For instance those who kill in self defence using reasonable force will be acquitted. Intentional killing may also be excusable if it was a response to provocation. This will reduce a murder charge to voluntary manslaughter thus avoiding a life sentence. In this essay I will examine why women's physical and emotional characteristics may prevent them satisfying the test for provocation and why "mans...laughter" is so aptly named. In order to prove provocation a provocative conduct, loss of control and that a reasonable person would have lost control as the defendant did must be proved....

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