[PDF] Provocation Diminished Responsibility And Infanticide eBook

Author : Professor Alan Reed
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1409497828

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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.

Author : Karen Brennan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509961666

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This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed analysis of the Infanticide Act and its impact in England and Wales and around the world. It is 100 years since an Infanticide Act was first passed in England and Wales. The statute, re-enacted in 1938, allows for leniency to be given to women who kill their infants within the first year of life. This legislation is unique and controversial: it creates a specific offence and defence that is available only to women who kill their biological infants. Men and other carers are not able to avail of the special mitigation provided by the Act, nor are women who kill older children. The collection brings together leading experts in the field to offer important insights into the history of the law, how it works today, the impact and legacy of the statute and potential futures of infanticide laws around the world. Contributors consider the Act in practice in England and Wales, the ways it has been portrayed in the British media and justifications for and criticisms of the provision of special treatment for women who kill their infants within a year of birth. It also looks at the criminal justice responses to infanticide in other jurisdictions, such as Australia, Ireland, Sweden and the United States of America.

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Page : 54 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Infanticide
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This consultation paper sets out the government proposals for reforms on: partial defences to murder of diminished responsibility and provocation, the law on complicity in relation to homicide, infanticide.

Author : Great Britain: Law Commission
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780117302648

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This consultation paper reviews the law relating to homicide in England and Wales, and sets out a number of provisional proposals in order to establish a more rational and coherent framework of legislation. Issues discussed include: the existing law and problems with it; the definition of murder and manslaughter; partial defences including provocation, diminished responsibility and duress; the fault element in murder and the concept of intention; and the doctrine of double-effect. The paper proposes the creation of a new Homicide Act (to replace the Homicide Act 1957) to establish clear definitions of murder and the partial defences to it, as well as defining manslaughter, within a graduated system of offences (the ladder principle) to reflect seriousness of offence and degrees of mitigation. For example, the offence of murder should be divided into two categories, of 'first degree murder' (with a mandatory life sentence) and 'second degree' (with a discretionary life sentence maximum). Responses to the consultation paper proposals should be received by 13.04.2006.

Author : Alan Reed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317103300

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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.

Author : Great Britain: Law Commission
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 2006-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0102943680

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A Law Commission consultation paper 'A new homicide act for England and Wales?' was published as LCCP 177 (ISBN 0117302643) in April 2006.