ABSTRACT
This book provides a leading point of reference in the field of partial defences to murder and with respect to the mental condition defences of loss of control and diminished responsibility in general. The work includes contributions from leading specialists from different jurisdictions. Divided into two parts, the first provides an analysis from the perspective of the UK, looking at particular concerns such as domestic violence, revenge and mixed motive killings, mistaken beliefs. The second part presents a comparative and international view to provide a wider background of how alternative systems treat issues of human frailty short of full insanity (loss of control, diminished responsibility) in the context of the criminal law.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 8|20 pages
Sexual Infidelity Killings
Contemporary Standardisations and Comparative Stereotypes
chapter 9|16 pages
Killing in Response to ‘Circumstances of an Extremely Grave Character'
Improving the Law on Homicide?
chapter 12|24 pages
Anglo-American Perspectives on Partial Defences
Something Old, Something Borrowed, and Something New
chapter 13|24 pages
Provoking a Range of Responses
The Provocation Defence in British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies
chapter 18|14 pages
The Conflation of Provocation and Justification
An Analysis of Partial Defences to Murder in Islamic Law
chapter 21|14 pages
Between Lack of Responsibility and Dangerousness
Determinism and the Specificity of the French Criminal Law on Lack of Intellectual Insight and Loss of Control
chapter 22|18 pages
Diminished Responsibility and Loss of Control
The Perspective of International Criminal Law
