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Loss of control and diminished responsibility : domestic, comparative and international perspectives
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- ISBN: 9781409431763
- ISBN: 1409431762
- ISBN: 9781409431756
- ISBN: 1409431754
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1 online resource (xiv, 396 pages) - Publisher: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2011.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 : eterminism 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 : he perspective of international criminal law / John Cubbon. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Restrictions: NLC students and staff only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Insanity defense Homicide -- Psychological aspects Homicide -- Psychological aspects Homicide Law |
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