Author: Queensland. Law Reform CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A Review of the Defence of Provocation
Author: Queensland. Law Reform CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Sex, Culpability, and the Defence of Provocation
Author: Danielle TysonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415560179
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Dealing with the complex case law concerning the use of the provocation defence in cases of intimate killings, Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation considers the construction and representation of subjectivity and sexual difference in legal narrations of homicide.
Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation
Author: Danielle TysonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136298843
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The partial defence of provocation is one of the most controversial doctrines within the criminal law. It has now been abolished in a number of international jurisdictions. Addressing the trajectory of debates about reform of the provocation defence across different jurisdictions, Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation considers the construction and representation of subjectivity and sexual difference in legal narrations of intimate partner homicide. Undeniably, the most vexing exculpatory cultural narrative of our times is that of a woman 'asking for it'. This book explores how the process of judgment in a criminal trial involves not only the drawing of inferences from the facts of a particular case, but also operates to deliver a narrative. Law, it is argued, constructs a narrative of how the female body incites male violence. And, pursuing an approach that is informed by socio-legal studies, literary theory and feminist theories of the body, Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation considers how this narrative is constructed via a range of discursive practices that position woman as a threat to masculine norms of propriety and autonomy. Once we have a clear understanding of the significance of narrative in legal decision-making, we can then formulate textual strategies of resistance to the violence of law's victim-blaming narratives by rewriting them.
A Review of the Excuse of Accident and the Defence of Provocation
Author: Queensland. Law Reform CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accident law
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Loss of Control and Diminished Responsibility
Author: Professor Alan ReedPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409497828
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
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.
Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon
Author: James ChalmersPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748679294
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This collection of essays honours the work of Sir Gerald Gordon CBE QC LLD (1929-). In modern times few, if any, individuals can have been as important to a single country's criminal law as Sir Gerald has been to the criminal law of Scotland. His monumental work The Criminal Law of Scotland (1967) is the foundation of modern Scottish criminal law and is recognised internationally as a major contribution to academic work on the subject. Elsewhere, he has made significant contributions as an academic, judge and as a member of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. Reflecting the academic rigour and practical application of Sir Gerald's work, this volume includes essays on criminal law theory, substantive law and evidence and procedure by practitioners and academics within and outside of Scotland, including contributions from England, Ireland and the USA.
Homicide Law Reform, Gender and the Provocation Defence
Author: Kate Fitz-GibbonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 113735755X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
This book critically examines the operation of the partial defence of provocation in a range of comparative international jurisdictions. Centrally concerned with conceptual questions of gender, justice and the role of denial in the criminal justice system, Fitz-Gibbon explores the divergent approaches taken to reforming the law of provocation.
Report of the Legislative Review Committee Into the Partial Defence of Provocation
Author: South Australia. Parliament. Legislative Review CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal liability
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
A Summary of Reforming the Defence of Provocation
Author: Joanne St. LewisHomicide Law Reform, Gender and the Provocation Defence
Author: Kate Fitz-GibbonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 113735755X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book critically examines the operation of the partial defence of provocation in a range of comparative international jurisdictions. Centrally concerned with conceptual questions of gender, justice and the role of denial in the criminal justice system, Fitz-Gibbon explores the divergent approaches taken to reforming the law of provocation.