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Editorial Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 45(2) 155–156 ! The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav Sharon Pickering DOI: 10.1177/0004865812444520 anj.sagepub.com In an article that should be prescribed reading on every Australian criminology under- graduate degree, Mark Finnane details the ‘pre-history’ of Australian criminology. While a distinctively Australian criminological undertaking is not found in the historical fragments, clearly questions of contemporary criminology, particularly its ‘continuities and paradoxes’, may come to offer future generations of scholars a different historical account. Intimate partner violence (IPV) and homicide is the focus of the following two articles concerned with how we criminologically understand its perpetration and how the legal system responds. Silke Meyer uses rational choice theory in an analysis of women’s moral reasoning around decisions to stay, leave and/or return to an abusive partner that has particular relevance for the provision of services and supportive interventions during these key periods. Kate Fitz-Gibbon considers intimate partner homicide in the context of the problematic use of the provocation defence in New South Wales. The provocation defence in cases of IPV has too often depended on depicting women as somehow contributing to their own deaths. Tracey Booth examines attempts to redress the silencing of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 45(2) 155–156 ! The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav Sharon Pickering DOI: 10.1177/0004865812444520 anj.sagepub.com In an article that should be prescribed reading on every Australian criminology under- graduate degree, Mark Finnane details the ‘pre-history’ of Australian criminology. While a distinctively Australian criminological undertaking is not found in the historical fragments, clearly questions of contemporary criminology, particularly its ‘continuities and paradoxes’, may come to offer future generations of scholars a different historical account. Intimate partner violence (IPV) and homicide is the focus of the following two articles concerned with how we criminologically understand its perpetration and how the legal system responds. Silke Meyer uses rational choice theory in an analysis of women’s moral reasoning around decisions to stay, leave and/or return to an abusive partner that has particular relevance for the provision of services and supportive interventions during these key periods. Kate Fitz-Gibbon considers intimate partner homicide in the context of the problematic use of the provocation defence in New South Wales. The provocation defence in cases of IPV has too often depended on depicting women as somehow contributing to their own deaths. Tracey Booth examines attempts to redress the silencing of

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