Criminal Responsibility and Partial Excuses

ISBN-13: 9781138613454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 216 str.

George Mousourakis

Opis

Publsihed in 1998, this book examines the relationship between responsibility and criminal liability through an analysis of provocation and related criminal defences. The book should be of special interest to criminal lawyers, legal theorists and students interested in comparative criminal law and jurisprudence.

Recenzje

’Mousourakis's account has sufficient theoretical foundations to survive the vagaries of the law and still make a useful contribution to the continuing moral debate that [the] provocation [defence] generates.’ Cambridge Law Journal

Spis treści

1. Introduction to the Theory of Justification and Excuse  2. Excusing Conditions and Criminal Liability  3. Homicide, Provocation and Culpability  4. Provocation as a Partial Excuse  5. Cumulative Provocation and Diminished Responsibility  6. Self-Defence, Provocation and Mistake of Fact  7. Concluding Note

O autorze

George Mousourakis