Homicide in Criminal Law

A Research Companion
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-58657-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Reihe: Substantive Issues in Criminal Law

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reed, Alan

Bohlander, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Strafverfahrens- und -prozessrecht, Strafverteidigung und Opferschutz
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.