The Struggle for Justice for Battered Women: Still a Colossal Work in Progress, as Exemplified by Helen Naslund’s Case
This article recounts the campaign for justice for Helen Naslund, a Canadian woman who lived in rural Alberta when she killed her abusive husband Miles in 2011 as he slept. Rather than go to trial on self-defence, on the advice of counsel Helen pled guilty to manslaughter and then, consequent to a j...
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| description | This article recounts the campaign for justice for Helen Naslund, a Canadian woman who lived in rural Alberta when she killed her abusive husband Miles in 2011 as he slept. Rather than go to trial on self-defence, on the advice of counsel Helen pled guilty to manslaughter and then, consequent to a joint submission on sentencing made with the Crown, she was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2020, the longest sentence on record for such a woman in Canada. The contributors to Helen’s journey, including Helen herself, a Senator, an academic, an activist, a lawyer and a journalist, all describe the roles they played in supporting Helen’s successful appeal against sentence in 2022 and her release from prison in 2023. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c59c8a6875ec4bf28aa7ab3249d00b5c2024-12-03T22:30:31ZengQueensland University of TechnologyInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy2202-79982202-80052024-12-01134142710.5204/ijcjsd.34793802The Struggle for Justice for Battered Women: Still a Colossal Work in Progress, as Exemplified by Helen Naslund’s CaseElizabeth Sheehy0Kim Pate1Helen NaslundMatthew Behrens2Mona Duckett3Jana G. Pruden4University of OttawaIndependent Senator in the Senate of CanadaWomen Who Choose to LiveKing’s Counsel, AlbertaThe Globe and MailThis article recounts the campaign for justice for Helen Naslund, a Canadian woman who lived in rural Alberta when she killed her abusive husband Miles in 2011 as he slept. Rather than go to trial on self-defence, on the advice of counsel Helen pled guilty to manslaughter and then, consequent to a joint submission on sentencing made with the Crown, she was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2020, the longest sentence on record for such a woman in Canada. The contributors to Helen’s journey, including Helen herself, a Senator, an academic, an activist, a lawyer and a journalist, all describe the roles they played in supporting Helen’s successful appeal against sentence in 2022 and her release from prison in 2023.https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/3479women who killabused womenself-defencefeminist campaigns |
| spellingShingle | Elizabeth Sheehy Kim Pate Helen Naslund Matthew Behrens Mona Duckett Jana G. Pruden The Struggle for Justice for Battered Women: Still a Colossal Work in Progress, as Exemplified by Helen Naslund’s Case International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy women who kill abused women self-defence feminist campaigns |
| title | The Struggle for Justice for Battered Women: Still a Colossal Work in Progress, as Exemplified by Helen Naslund’s Case |
| title_full | The Struggle for Justice for Battered Women: Still a Colossal Work in Progress, as Exemplified by Helen Naslund’s Case |
| title_fullStr | The Struggle for Justice for Battered Women: Still a Colossal Work in Progress, as Exemplified by Helen Naslund’s Case |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Struggle for Justice for Battered Women: Still a Colossal Work in Progress, as Exemplified by Helen Naslund’s Case |
| title_short | The Struggle for Justice for Battered Women: Still a Colossal Work in Progress, as Exemplified by Helen Naslund’s Case |
| title_sort | struggle for justice for battered women still a colossal work in progress as exemplified by helen naslund s case |
| topic | women who kill abused women self-defence feminist campaigns |
| url | https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/3479 |
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