Research Catalog

Title

With malice aforethought : a study of the crime and punishment for homicide / Louis Blom-Cooper and Terence Morris.

Author

Blom-Cooper, Louis, 1926-2018

Publication

Oxford ; Portland, OR : Hart, 2004.

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Additional Authors

Morris, Terence.

Description

204 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book addresses the powerful and controversial arguments for the current distinctions between murder, manslaughter and other specific categories of crime to be abolished and subsumed within a single crime of culpable homicide. In the course of this analysis the authors consider a number of issues of great contemporary importance, including the presentation of expert evidence in cases involving unexplained infant death, corporate killing, and the question of the defences available to the accused, including self-defence and provocation, where popular notions of what is reasonable or justifiable may be at variance with legal precedent." "While this book aims to consider criminal homicide in its social, historical and legal setting, it also goes far beyond in setting out the case for radical reform."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Criminal liability
• Doodslag
• Homicide
• Murder victims' families > Attitudes
• Punishment
• Straffen
• Strafrechtelijke aansprakelijkheid

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

1. Prologue and apologia -- 2. The legacy of Sr. Edward Coke, knight -- 3. Murder will out : the substantive law today -- 4. Hunting the chimaera -- 5. Expert evidence on trial -- 6. The past revisited : when memory lifts the latch -- 7. On the dealing floor of the lords : rewind to 1965 -- 8. The starting points : where do they end? -- 9. Corporate killing -- 10. Motorised killing -- 11. The appellate process -- 12. The crime and the penalty : thinking outside the box -- Annex 1. Membership of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment 1949-53 -- Annex 2. Extracts from the Homicide Act 1957 -- Annex 3. Life sentences for murder : the Butler-Gardner correspondence 1961 -- Annex 4. Law Lords voting for the Parker Amendment on 27 July 1965 -- Annex 5. Extracts from the Murder (abolition of death penalty) Act 1965 -- Annex 6. Life sentences for murder : a letter from Jack Straw July 2000 -- Annex 7. Practice Direction (crime : mandatory life sentences) (No 2) of 29 July 2004.

ISBN

• 1841134856
• 9781841134857

LCCN

^^2005273756

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library