With Malice Aforethought
A Study of the Crime and Punishment for Homicide
For more than three centuries the criminal law has given rise to a divergent set of approaches to the crime of homicide. Whereas the law of murder has not conceptually changed,the crime of manslaughter has resulted in some forms of homicide being visited with relatively minor penalties. These various categories of unlawful killing present considerable problems relating to intention, or lack of it, and the culpability of those whose behaviour, while lacking in evident malice, is characterised by the grossest recklessness. The reaction of the relatives of victims is generally simpler. They frequently find it impossible to understand how those w…
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Weitere Autoren: Morris, Terence
- ISBN: 978-1-84731-184-9
- EAN: 9781847311849
- Produktnummer: 29698132
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 677 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Sir Louis Blom-Cooper was one of the most eminent lawyers and law reformers around. He was a QC and had an immensely distinguished career as a barrister but also as a broadcaster, author of books and public speaker. He was Chairman of the Howard League for Penal Reform and an adviser to Jack Straw on matters relating to the prison service.
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