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Provocation and responsibility [electronic resource] / Jeremy Horder.
By: Horder, Jeremy
.Series: Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice: Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon, 1992Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 208 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780191681707.Subject(s): Provocation (Criminal law) -- Great Britain -- History | Criminal liability -- Great Britain -- History | Law | Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of lawAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198256960DDC classification: 345.4104 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: A philosophical inquiry into the foundations of provocation as a defence to murder, this book draws on historical and philosophical sources not normally linked with criminal law. It seeks to explain why and when action in anger is thought morally less blameworthy than premeditated action.
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A philosophical inquiry into the foundations of provocation as a defence to murder, this book draws on historical and philosophical sources not normally linked with criminal law. It seeks to explain why and when action in anger is thought morally less blameworthy than premeditated action.
Specialized.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.