LLB 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Aggravated Sexual Assault, Sexual Assault, Injunction
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Crimes amendment (strangulation) act 2014 s 37. New offence employs multiple aggravating factors to respond to a type of violence that occurs primarily in dv contexts. Introduced due to research indicating that strangulation in dv situations is an indicator of the risk of further harm to victims of dv including homicide. T(cid:396)a(cid:374)gulatio(cid:374) is (cid:374)o(cid:449) t(cid:396)eated as a (cid:858)(cid:396)ed flag(cid:859) The former s 37 (now s37(2)) required an intention to commit a separate indictable offence (such as sexual assault or robbery) in order to charge someone with dv. T(cid:396)a(cid:374)gulatio(cid:374) used to (cid:271)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)side(cid:396)ed (cid:858)less se(cid:396)ious(cid:859) (cid:271)(cid:455) poli(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d p(cid:396)ose(cid:272)uto(cid:396)ial autho(cid:396)ities. History: j alle(cid:374), (cid:862)the i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374) of the pathologi(cid:272)al fa(cid:373)il(cid:455): a histo(cid:396)i(cid:272)al stud(cid:455) of family violence in. Dependent wives across the class spectrum appear to have been vulnerable to dv. Divorce research states that the petit bourgeois violence more likely to arise from a particular incident rather than a long standing feature of the relationship.
