Loss of control and diminished responsibility : domestic, comparative and international perspectives /
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| Imprint: | Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2011. |
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| Description: | xiv, 396 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8520015 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- The new diminished responsibility plea: more than mere modernisation?
- The modern partial defence of diminished responsibility
- Loss of self-control under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009: oh no!
- The model of tolerance and self-restraint
- The serious wrong of domestic abuse and the loss of control defence
- Loss of self-control: when his anger is worth more than her fear
- Feminism, 'typical' women, and losing control
- Sexual infidelity killings: contemporary standardisations and comparative stereotypes
- Killing in response : to 'circumstances of an extremely grave character': improving the law on homicide
- The view from Ireland
- Partial defences to murder in Scotland: an unlikely tranquillity
- Anglo-American perspectives on partial defences: something old, something borrowed, and something new
- Provoking a range of responses: the provocation defence in British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies
- A comparative analysis of English and French defences to demonstrate the limitations of the concept of loss of control
- When the bough breaks - defences and sentencing options available in battered women and similar scenarios under German criminal law
- Partial defences to murder in New Zealand
- Abnormal mental state mitigations or murder: the US perspective
- The conflation of provocation and justification: an analysis of partial defences to murder in Islamic law
- Provocation and diminished responsibility in Dutch homicide law
- Partial defences due to loss of control and diminished responsibility under Spanish criminal law
