The Simon Gittany Murder Case: Criminal Law Questions

Running head: QUESTIONS
CRIMINAL LAW
Student details:

QUESTIONS
Case study: The Simon Gittany Murder Case
Answer to question 1
Type of homicide-
The homicide of Lisa Cecilia Harnum by Simon Gittany may be defined as intimate
partner homicide or more definitely intimate femicide. Australian Institute of Criminology
(2012) defined the Intimate partner homicide (IPH) as homicide happening between these
close partners, wherever the criminal and victim have recent or former close relationship.
(Wallace, 2017). In this way, this is confirmed that the case of Simon Gittany was prohibited
act, which was not justifiable, by the law (Critchley & McGrath, 2015).
Answer to question2-
Main characteristics of the offender-
Simon Gittany was forty years old at the time of sentencing. Simon Gittany was
Caucasian male of Lebanese legacy. Simon was upraised in the suburbia of Sydney in the
earing, constant and supportive family. Simon had five siblings in the family. At the time of
the crime, Simon was not hired by the organisation. At that time, Simon was doing work as a
businessperson to run his business online. There were no proofs in respect of the criminal
history of Simon. When Simon was of eighteen years, he was condemned of attack. Further,
at the age of twenty-one years, Simon did two crimes of getting the taken properties and one
crime of assault with hateful offending to the police officer in the performance of the
obligations. In his late twenties, Simon was condemned for delivering the restricted drugs
along with the owning products doubted of being theft. The bodily health and emotional
health of Simon was evaluated by psychologist Anne at the time of a test. This evaluation
developed that there was no emotional health condition or bodily health condition related to
the murder of Lisa Harnum (Goodman-Delahunty, & Das, 2017).

QUESTIONS
Answer to question 3-
The extent to which offender characteristics same to or dissimilar from common patterns in
criminals who compel this specific kind of homicide-
Simon Gittany has the same behaviours and features to common patterns of the
criminals who have made intimate partner homicide (IPH). It is stated by the various studies
that the criminals of IPH had been spotted with psychological disorders like uncertain
personality disorder and stress that states behaviours like violence, impulsivity and the threat
of being uncontrolled. The Psychologist of Simon did a test of the behaviour of him. The
results of the test stated the extremely raised and statically considerable score fore SPD. The
Schizoid Personality Disorder is the situation, where persons ignore common or general
activities and the communication with other people, an individual can lack self-awareness.
The Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD) defines the methods of features or behaviours. The
common personality of male perpetrators in domestic homicide cases has a controlling
personality. They are simple to get jealous, ungenerous, compulsive, and controlling in the
connection. Simon Gittany as the committer tried to control his fiancé through installing
software to mobile to track and review the text message. He also connected CCTV camera
inside and outside the building for snooping. In this way, the common features of IPH are
obvious in case of the Simon Gittany. It is found that between years 2008 to 2010, eighty-
eight per cent of homicide criminals to be men. The average distinctive age was anticipated to
be thirty-two years old. However, the analysed no difficult context of the criminals.
Similarly, the study by Polk and Ranson referred in Wilson (2003) states that an individual
who kills the partner is more likely to be ungenerous and jealous.
Answer to question 4-