Provocation and responsibility [electronic resource] /
Jeremy Horder.
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1992.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 208 p.) : ill.
- Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice .
- Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780191681707 No price
Provocation (Criminal law)--History.--Great Britain Criminal liability--History.--Great Britain Law. Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.