Homicide in Criminal Law

Alan Reed is Associate Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Northumbria. He is a Professor of Criminal and Private International Law, and Editor of The Journal of Criminal Law.Michael Bohlander is the International Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. He holds the Chair of Comparative and International Criminal Law at Durham Law School.Nicola Wake is Associate Professor in Law and Deputy Director for Northumbria Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies.Emma Engleby is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University. Her research interests are in Criminal Evidence, specifically in the use and admissibility of character evidence.Verity Adams is a barrister at Trinity Chambers currently completing a PhD at the University of Durham. Her research interests are in Criminal Law and Evidence, Immigration and Public International Law.

• List of contributors Preface Introduction Part 1 1 The mandatory sentence and the case for second degree murder JEREMY HORDER2 Killings short of murder: Examining culpable homicide in Scots law CLAIRE MCDIARMID3 Reforming English homicide law: Fair labelling questions and comparative answers MATTHEW GIBSON AND ALAN REED4 The current state of murder in English law: A critique, wrong turns and all J.J. CHILD AND G.R. SULLIVAN5 ‘Loss of self-control’: The cultural lag of sexual infidelity and the transformative promise of the fear defenceSUSAN S.M. EDWARDS6 Diminished responsibility: A limited partial defence to murder RUDI FORTSON QC7 Causing death SALLY KYD8 The termination of pregnancy and the criminal law JONATHAN HERRING9 Homicide and the vulnerable subject of criminal law CLAIRE DE THAN AND JESSE ELVIN10 Recording murder: videos depicting homicide and the law ALISDAIR A. GILLESPIEPart 2 11 South Africa GERHARD KEMP12 United States of America VERA BERGELSON13 Germany KAI AMBOS AND STEFANIE BOCK14 New Zealand JULIA TOLMIE15 The Netherlands ERIK GRITTER16 Turkey MURAT ÖNOK17 Islamic law MOHAMMAD HEDAYATI-KAKHKI18 Sweden MAGNUS ULVÄNGIndex

'This is an authoritative and valuable contribution to the discussion surrounding the way in which the criminal law deals with homicide offences. It should be read by anyone researching this increasingly complex area of law.'Christopher J. Newman, University of Sunderland, UK'Homicide in Criminal law is a sophisticated account of a range of conceptual problems in the law of homicide. The text, both intellectually challenging yet immensely readable, provides a feast of ethical, philosophical and practical reflection for serious students of criminal law. An admirable addition to Bohlander and Reed’s collaborative series on substantive criminal law.'Warren Brookbanks, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand