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Criminal Law- Violence Against Women Sunita has been charged with murder. Murder is the intentional and unlawful killing of another person. If found guilty of murder the judge must pass a mandatory life sentence, if the conviction is for manslaughter, then the sentence is at the judge's discretion and it doesn't necessarily mean a custodial sentence. Despite the fact that women are much more likely to be killed then to kill, women charged with the murder of their violent male partners are further victimised by a legal system that has constructed, interpreted and implemented to fit mens' experience and homicidal responses. Current legislation frequently reduces men's murder charges to manslaughter convictions on their pretext of women's alleged infidelity. The law is inherently gendered. By looking at the legal defences to murder we see how they represent a male understanding of the crime and men's experiences of killing. As a defence Sunita...

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