Introduction&Alison Dundes Renteln and Marie-Claire Foblets 1
Part Ⅰ Theoretical Perspectives 7
1.The Culture Defence in English Common Law： the Potential for Development&Gordon R Woodman 7
2.Culture， Crime， and Culpability： Perspectives on the Defence of Provocation&Kumaralingam Amirtbalingam 35
3.The Use and Abuse of the Cultural Defense&Alison Dundes Renteln 61
Part Ⅱ Overview of Countries 85
4.The Cultural Defence in Spain&Barbara Truffin and Cesar Arjona 85
5.Visions of a Multicultural Criminal Law：an Australian Perspective&Simon Bronitt 121
6.The Paradox of Cultural Differences in Dutch Criminal Law&Mirjam Siesling and Jeroen Ten Voorde 145
7.The Cultural Defence in Criminal Law：South African Perspectives&Pieter A Carstens 175
Part Ⅲ Specific Issues 199
8.Criminalising Romani Culture through Law&Joke Kusters 199
9.Honor Killings and the Cultural Defense in Germany&Sylvia Maier 229
10.A Critique of ‘Loss of Face’ Arguments in Cultural Defense Cases： a Comparative Study&Cher Weixia Chen 247
11.The Paradox of the Cultural Defence： Gender and Cultural Othering in Canada&Maneesha Deckha 261
Part Ⅳ Legal Actors 287
12.Dealing with the Ethnic Other in Criminal Law Practice：a Case Study from the Netherlands&Brenda Carina Oude Breuil 287
13.Cultural Defence and Societal Dynamics&Erik Claes and Jogchum Vrielink 301
14.The Anthropologist as Expert Witness： the Case of a Murder in Maine&John L Caughey 321
Conclusion&Alison Dundes Renteln and Marie-Claire Foblets 335
Scientific Bibliography 339
Index 367