222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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Published in 1998, this book examines the relationship between responsibility and criminal liability through an analysis of provocation and related criminal defences. It begins by identifying fundamental questions about the role of justifications and excuses in the criminal law as they emerge from the discussion of philosophical theories of responsibility. Following an outline of the distinction... Read more
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
Biography
George Mousourakis
’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
