Loss of control and diminished responsibility : domestic, comparative and international perspectives / edited by Alan Reed, Michael Bohlander.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reed, Alan (Matthew Alan)

Bohlander, Michael, 1962-

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insanity defense.

Homicide--Psychological aspects.

Homicide.

Physical Description:

xiv, 396 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2011]

Contents:

Introduction / Alan Reed and Michael Bohlander

The new diminished responsibility plea : more than mere modernisation? / Ronnie Mackay

The modern partial defence of diminished responsibility / Rudi Fortson

Loss of self-control under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 : oh no! / Barry Mitchell

The model of tolerance and self-restraint / Richard Taylor

The serious wrong of domestic abuse and the loss of control defence / Jonathan Herring

Loss of self-control : when his anger is worth more than her fear / Susan S.M. Edwards

Feminism, "typical" women, and losing control / Neil Cobb and Anna Gausden

Sexual infidelity killings : contemporary standardisations and comparative stereotypes / Alan Reed and Nicola Wake

Killing in response to "circumstances of an extremely grave character" : improving the law on homicide / Jesse Elvin

The view from Ireland / John E. Stannard

Partial defences to murder in Scotland : an unlikely tranquility / James Chalmers

Anglo-American perspectives on partial defences : something old, something borrowed, and something new / Alan Reed and Nicola Wake

Provoking a range of responses : the provocation defence in British overseas territories and crown dependencies / Claire de Than

A comparative analysis of English and French defences to demonstrate the limitations of the concept of loss of control / Catherine Elliot

When the bough breaks : defences and sentencing options available in battered-women and similar scenarios under German criminal law / Michael Bohlander

Partial defences to murder in New Zealand / Warren Brookbanks

Abnormal mental state mitigations or murder : the US perspective / Paul H. Robinson

The conflation of provocation and justification: an analysis of partial defences to murder in Islamic law / Mohammed M. Heddayati-Kakhki

Provocation and diminished responsibility in Dutch homicide law / Hein D. Wolswijk

Partial defences due to loss of control and diminished responsibility under Spanish criminal law / Mauel Cancio Meliá

Between lack of responsibility and dangerousness : determinism and the specificity of the French criminal law on lack of intellectual insight and loss of control / Caroline Fournet

Diminished responsibility and loss of control : the perspective of international criminal law / John Cubbon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

1409431754

9781409431756

9781409431763

1409431762

OCLC:

726151358

Publisher Number:

99948572701