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Loss of Control and Diminished Responsibility: Domestic, Comparative and International Perspectives

Loss of Control and Diminished Responsibility: Domestic, Comparative and International Perspectives

Author: Alan Reed; Michael Bohlander
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367602109

Published In: June 2020
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781409431756

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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.

Preface

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 tranquillity, 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 Elliott

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. Hedayati-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, Manuel Cancio Me