Introduction&Alan Reed and Michael Bohlander 1
1 The New Diminished Responsibility Plea： More than Mere Modernisation?&Ronnie Mackay 9
2 The Modern Partial Defence of Diminished Responsibility&Rudi Fortson QC 21
3 Loss of Self-Control under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009： Oh No！&Barry Mitchell 39
4 The Model of Tolerance and Self-Restraint&Richard Taylor 51
5 The Serious Wrong of Domestic Abuse and the Loss of Control Defence&Jonathan Herring 65
6 Loss of Self-Control： When His Anger is Worth More than Her Fear&Susan S.M.Edwards 79
7 Feminism, ‘Typical’ Women, and Losing Control&Neil Cobb and Anna Gausden 97
8 Sexual Infldelity Killings：Contemporary Standardisations and Comparative Stereotypes&Alan Reed and Nicola Wake 115
9 Killing in Response to ‘Circumstances of an Extremely Grave Character’：Improving the Law on Homicide?&Jesse Elvin 135
10 The View from Ireland&John E.Stannard 151
11 Partial Defences to Murder in Scotland： An Unlikely Tranquillity&James Chalmers 167
12 Anglo-American Perspectives on Partial Defences：Something Old, Something Borrowed, and Something New&Alan Reed and Nicola Wake 183
13 Provoking a Range of Responses： The Provocation Defence in British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies&Claire de Than 207
14 A Comparative Analysis of English and French Defences to Demonstrate the Limitations of the Concept of Loss of Control&Catherine Elliott 231
15 When the Bough Breaks - Defences and Sentencing Options Available in Battered Women and Similar Scenarios under German Criminal Law&Michael Bohlander 247
16 Partial Defences to Murder in New Zealand&Warren Brookbanks 271
17 Abnormal Mental State Mitigations of Murder： The US Perspective&Paul H.Robinson 291
18 The Conflation of Provocation and Justification：An Analysis of Partial Defences to Murder in Islamic Law&Mohammad M.Hedayati-Kakhki 311
19 Provocation and Diminished Responsibility in Dutch Homicide Law&Hein D.Wolswijk 325
20 Partial Defences Due to Loss of Control and Diminished Responsibility under Spanish Criminal Law&Manuel Cancio Melia 341
21 Between Lack of Responsibility and Dangerousness：Determinism and the Specificity of the French Criminal Law on Lack of Intellectual Insight and Loss of Control&Caroline Fournet 353
22 Diminished Responsibility and Loss of Control：The Perspective of International Criminal Law&John Cubbon 367
Index 385