| Provocation and Responsibility Contributor(s): Horder, Jeremy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198256965 ISBN-13: 9780198256960 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 1992 Annotation: Provocation and Responsibility breaks new ground by drawing on historical and philosophical sources not normally linked in analysis of the criminal law, to provide the first detailed study of the effect of provocation on culpability in morality and law. It traces the fascinating history and colourful development of the legal doctrine of provocation, right up to present-day controversies over the scope of the doctrine's application in murder cases. These developments are illuminated throughout by setting them in the context of the changing moral and philosophical understanding of anger, its effect on responsibility and the role it plays in the human character. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Criminal Law - General |
| Dewey: 345.410 |
| LCCN: 92008424 |
| Lexile Measure: 1700 |
| Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.10 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Little has been written by lawyers about the effect of provocation on culpability for homicide in English law, yet the question of what our moral attitudes should be towards someone who kills or injures another in anger has been a source of lively debate for centuries. The first philosophical inquiry into the moral character of actions in anger, it seeks to resolve the philosophical controversies generated by setting them in the context of an examination of the place of anger in human nature throughout history. A previously unexplored area of research, this work breaks new ground in its use of historical and philosophical sources not normally linked with criminal law, providing a colorful and fascinating history of the plea of provocation as a defense to murder in England. |