Author: Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Publisher: 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.
Homicide Law Reform, Gender and the Provocation Defence
Author: Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Sex, Culpability, and the Defence of Provocation
Author: Danielle Tyson
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon
Author: James Chalmers
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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-Gibbon
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Loss of Control and Diminished Responsibility
Author: Professor Alan Reed
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
The Mind of the Criminal
Author: Reid Griffith Fontaine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521513766
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Discusses the excusing nature of traditional and non-traditional criminal law defenses and questions the structure of these based on scientific findings.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521513766
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Discusses the excusing nature of traditional and non-traditional criminal law defenses and questions the structure of these based on scientific findings.
Murder and the Reasonable Man
Author: Cynthia Lee
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814751156
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Demonstrates how social norms and beliefs influence the outcomes in certain criminal cases.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814751156
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Demonstrates how social norms and beliefs influence the outcomes in certain criminal cases.
Codification, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code
Author: Barry Wright
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317164865
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Enacted in 1860, the Indian Penal Code is the longest serving and one of the most influential criminal codes in the common law world. This book commemorates its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary and honours the law reform legacy of Thomas Macaulay, the principal drafter of the Code. The book comprises chapters which examine the general principles of criminal responsibility from the perspective of Macaulay, and from more recent accounts by lawmakers and reformers. These are framed by chapters that examine the history and conceptual underpinnings of Macaulay's Code, consider the need to revitalize the Indian Penal Code, and review the current challenges of principled criminal law reform and codification. This book is a valuable reference on the Indian Penal Code, and current debates about general principles of criminal law for legal academics, judges, legal practitioners and criminal law reformers. It also promises to have wider scholarly appeal, of interest to legal theorists, historians and policy specialists.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317164865
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Enacted in 1860, the Indian Penal Code is the longest serving and one of the most influential criminal codes in the common law world. This book commemorates its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary and honours the law reform legacy of Thomas Macaulay, the principal drafter of the Code. The book comprises chapters which examine the general principles of criminal responsibility from the perspective of Macaulay, and from more recent accounts by lawmakers and reformers. These are framed by chapters that examine the history and conceptual underpinnings of Macaulay's Code, consider the need to revitalize the Indian Penal Code, and review the current challenges of principled criminal law reform and codification. This book is a valuable reference on the Indian Penal Code, and current debates about general principles of criminal law for legal academics, judges, legal practitioners and criminal law reformers. It also promises to have wider scholarly appeal, of interest to legal theorists, historians and policy specialists.
Victim/survivor-focused Justice Responses and Reforms to Criminal Court Practice
Author: Nicole Bluett-Boyd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922038449
Category : Sexual abuse victims
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Reforms have been underway over the last three decades to address the disadvantages that victim/survivors of sexual assault face within the criminal justice system in Australia. Such reforms include expansion of advocate services, specialisation of police, alternative provisions for giving evidence at trial, and changes to jury instructions. This report was commissioned to examine the implementation of these reforms and their impact on the victim/survivor experience. Drawing on interviews with 81 criminal justice professionals including counsellors, lawyers and judges, it looks at victim/survivor-focused approaches, promising and innovative practices, the take up of reforms, the factors that enable or inhibit victim-focused reforms being embedded in court practices, and the potential for future reform.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922038449
Category : Sexual abuse victims
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Reforms have been underway over the last three decades to address the disadvantages that victim/survivors of sexual assault face within the criminal justice system in Australia. Such reforms include expansion of advocate services, specialisation of police, alternative provisions for giving evidence at trial, and changes to jury instructions. This report was commissioned to examine the implementation of these reforms and their impact on the victim/survivor experience. Drawing on interviews with 81 criminal justice professionals including counsellors, lawyers and judges, it looks at victim/survivor-focused approaches, promising and innovative practices, the take up of reforms, the factors that enable or inhibit victim-focused reforms being embedded in court practices, and the potential for future reform.
Murder, Manslaughter and Infanticide
Author: Great Britain: Law Commission
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0102943680
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A Law Commission consultation paper 'A new homicide act for England and Wales?' was published as LCCP 177 (ISBN 0117302643) in April 2006.
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0102943680
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A Law Commission consultation paper 'A new homicide act for England and Wales?' was published as LCCP 177 (ISBN 0117302643) in April 2006.