Provocation and Responsibility
Jeremy Horder
Abstract
This book draws on historical and philosophical sources not normally linked in analysis of the criminal law, to provide a detailed study of the effect of provocation on culpability in morality and law. It traces the fascinating history and colourful development of the legal doctrine of provocation, right up to present-day controversies over the scope of the doctrine’s application in murder cases. These developments are illuminated throughout by setting them in the context of the changing moral and philosophical understanding of anger, its effect on responsibility, and the role it plays in the ... More
Keywords: criminal law, culpability, morality, law, provocation, murder, anger, responsibility, human character
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1992 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198256960 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198256960.001.0001 |
