Slow femicide: when a woman kills herself after years of relationship violence, should her partner be charged with a crime? Professor Heather Douglas explains.

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Slow femicide: when a woman kills herself after years of relationship violence, should her partner be charged with a crime? Professor Heather Douglas tells us of English cases where the man has been jailed for manslaughter.

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Further reading: "‘Slow femicide’: Call to hold abusive partners to account for suicides" (article behing paywall): https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/slow-femicide-call-to-hold-abusive-partners-to-account-for-suicides-20260607-p604lx.html Douglas, H. . (2026) “Suicides and Claimed Suicides in the Context of Domestic and Family Violence and Coercive Control: Legal and Policy Responses”, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy: https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/4720 Wallkate, S., & Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2022). Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts. Current Sociology, 001139212210826: https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921221082698 Dangar, S. et al., (2022) Learning Legacies: An analysis of domestic homicide reviews in cases of domestic abuse suicide: https://aafda.org.uk/learning-legacies