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ByMagnus Ulväng
BookHomicide in Criminal Law

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
Imprint Routledge
Pages 14
eBook ISBN 9781351016315

ABSTRACT

Homicide, understood as the intentional causing of death of a human being, has been criminalised in Swedish law as long as there has been a Criminal Code. Since Swedish law separates guilt in the forms of dolus and culpa, the distinction between murder / manslaughter and causing another's death is drawn accordingly to the prerequisites of what suffices as intentional. In Swedish law, brain death is accepted as a criterion for end of life. Swedish law has three degrees of reckless or negligent killing. In Sweden, abortion is freely available and the person who is pregnant decides, a priori, whether to terminate her pregnancy. Sweden takes a unique view on the relationship between insanity and criminal responsibility since the law does not contain a requirement that the actor has to have a sufficient mental capacity in order to be able to commit a crime.

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