Criminal Responsibility and Partial Excuses

List of contents

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

About the author

George Mousourakis

Summary

Published 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.

Additional text

’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

Product details

• Authors: George Mousourakis, Mousourakis George
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2018
• EAN: 9781138613447
• ISBN: 978-1-138-61344-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminal law: procedure and offences