Provocation and Responsibility

Download or read book Provocation and Responsibility written by Jeremy Horder and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1992 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocation and Responsibility breaks new ground by drawing on historical and philosophical sources not normally linked in analysis of the criminal law, to provide the first 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 human character.