With Malice Aforethought: A Study of the Crime and Punishment for Homicide

by Terence Morris and Louis Blom-Cooper

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841134856
• ISBN13: 9781841134857
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"