Homicide in Criminal Law (eBook, ePUB)

A Research Companion
Redaktion: Reed, Alan; Bohlander, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a leading contribution to the substantive arena relating to Homicide in the criminal law. In broad terms, the ambit of homicide standardisations in extant law is contestable and opaque. This book provides a logical template to focus the debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351016292
• Artikelnr.: 56887320

Autorenporträt

Alan Reed is Associate Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Northumbria. He is a Professor of Criminal and Private International Law, and Editor of The Journal of Criminal Law. Michael Bohlander is the International Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. He holds the Chair of Comparative and International Criminal Law at Durham Law School. Nicola Wake is Associate Professor in Law and Deputy Director for Northumbria Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies. Emma Engleby is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University. Her research interests are in Criminal Evidence, specifically in the use and admissibility of character evidence. Verity Adams is a barrister at Trinity Chambers currently completing a PhD at the University of Durham. Her research interests are in Criminal Law and Evidence, Immigration and Public International Law.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Preface
Introduction
Part 1
1 The mandatory sentence and the case for second degree murder
JEREMY HORDER
2 Killings short of murder: Examining culpable homicide in Scots law
CLAIRE MCDIARMID
3 Reforming English homicide law: Fair labelling questions and comparative
answers
MATTHEW GIBSON AND ALAN REED
4 The current state of murder in English law: A critique, wrong turns and
all
J.J. CHILD AND G.R. SULLIVAN
5 'Loss of self-control': The cultural lag of sexual infidelity and the
transformative promise of the fear defence
SUSAN S.M. EDWARDS
6 Diminished responsibility: A limited partial defence to murder
RUDI FORTSON QC
7 Causing death
SALLY KYD
8 The termination of pregnancy and the criminal law
JONATHAN HERRING
9 Homicide and the vulnerable subject of criminal law
CLAIRE DE THAN AND JESSE ELVIN
10 Recording murder: videos depicting homicide and the law
ALISDAIR A. GILLESPIE
Part 2
11 South Africa
GERHARD KEMP
12 United States of America
VERA BERGELSON
13 Germany
KAI AMBOS AND STEFANIE BOCK
14 New Zealand
JULIA TOLMIE
15 The Netherlands
ERIK GRITTER
16 Turkey
MURAT ÖNOK
17 Islamic law
MOHAMMAD HEDAYATI-KAKHKI
18 Sweden
MAGNUS ULVÄNG
Index