Description
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. The overall concept addresses three specific elements within this arena, embracing an overarching synergy between them. This edifice engages in an examination of UK provisions, and in contrasting these provisions against alternative domestic jurisdictions as well as comparative contributions addressing a particularised research grid for content. The comparative chapters provide a wider background of how other legal systems treat a variety of specialised issues relating to homicide in the context of the criminal law.
The debate in relation to homicide continues apace for academics, practitioners and within the criminal justice system. Having expert descriptions of the wider issues surrounding the particular discussion and of other legal systems’ approaches serves to stimulate and inform that debate. This collection will be a major source of reference for future discussion.
Table of Contents
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
