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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"manslaughter"”.
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Manslaughter and corporate liability
… concerned with the topical subject of corporate manslaughter; despite a cursory dismissal from the authors of one textbook within the last five years, this area of the law has since seen its first conviction, numerous academic articles and the publication of a Law Commission Report which …
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Corporate manslaughter and the law: what message to industry?
The main concern of this study is the examination of the legal issues surrounding the problem of the large number of deaths caused by corporations with particular emphasis on the need to isolate an effective legal message for industry in relation to safety. This will involve looking at the way the …
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Turning points of corporate manslaughter reform in England and Wales from 1912 to 1999
… to indict a corporation for gross negligence manslaughter in the 1920’s, legal reform surrounding corporate manslaughter has been discussed in political and legal arenas. This research answers the question of whether missed opportunities of corporate manslaughter reform in England and Wales …
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An investigation into health and safety management by SMEs and the risk of corporate manslaughter prosecution
… of H&S management in the industry. The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (CMCHA) was passed with the intention of improving the law on corporate criminal liability for poor H&S management. Since the Act came to force in 2008, over 30 percent of the convictions are attributable …
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Enforcing the ISM Code, and Improving Maritime Safety, with an Improved Corporate Manslaughter Act: A Safety Culture Theory Perspective
… UK can be tackled by using reformed corporate manslaughter legislation. This thesis adopts a Safety Culture Theory approach and uses a multi-model research design methodology; a doctrinal model and a socio-legal model. The thesis hypothesis and the author's proposed corporate manslaughter …
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Women who kill their abusive partners : an analysis of queer theory, social justice and the criminal law
… Diana Butler, who was, on retrial, convicted for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.I argue that the murder/manslaughter and custody/probation distinctions are linked to the unintelligible/intelligible gender distinction. I further argue that in those cases in which a …
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The Psychological Allure of Alford: Why Innocents Plead Guilty
… task or being accused of involuntary manslaughter. Participants were then randomly assigned to be either guilty or innocent of the wrongdoing and were subsequently offered either a traditional plea that required them to admit guilt, or an Alford plea that enabled them to proclaim …
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Spatial Distributions of Domestic and Non-Domestic Violence by Firearm Involvement
… development. Data on murder, non-negligent manslaughter, and aggravated assault incidents reported to Austin Police Department in the city of Austin, Texas, throughout 2020 and 2021 (n = 5,727) were used for the study. Kernel density estimation maps were produced for each of the relevant …
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THE LIVES OF CRIMINALLY VIOLENT WOMEN (VOLUMES I AND II) (STRESS, HOMICIDE)
… view of the social worlds where murder and manslaughter occur.</p><p>The study's theoretical orientation is built from the literature on life stress. There is strong evidence that an excess of stress can adversely affect behavior. The ways in which people manage everyday tensions may be as …
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then moored
… with enormous burdens—a superhero commits manslaughter, a woman agonizes over an apartment fire that she may have been accessory to, a mother slowly crumbles under the weight of a husband and child who don’t listen to her—and either allow, or refuse, to let these burdens define them. Some …
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CHILDREN: Non-Accidental Death and the Lacuna of Prosecution. A Critical Analysis of the Law Commission's Proposals and a Re-evaluation of the Underlying Case Law
… an omission within the offence of unlawful act manslaughter, omissions not being considered sufficient for this offence. Lowe is still considered good law despite being overruled by the House of Lords in Sheppard 1981. Reconciliation of these two cases and the earlier case of Senior 1899 is …
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The Aftermath of Violence: Victim Offender Dialogue, Forgiveness Processes, and Other Paths to Healing
… of some unlawful act (for example, murder or manslaughter). Those affected by the loss of a loved one due to violent crime are called survivors. Of particular interest in this study was the survivor's decision to use or not to use Ohio’s restorative justice program known as Victim Offender …
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Why did they do it? Moral sensibilities, motivating reasons, and degrees of moral blame in culpable homicide
… whether changing the definitions of murder and manslaughter will allow courts to legitimately recognise all relevant mitigating (and aggravating) circumstances in determining guilt. It will also consider whether there are other options for reform that might better deliver justice in the round. …
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Crime and punishment in the Delaware River area, 1740-1790, as reported in the Philadelphia newspapers
… included the various degrees of treason, murder, manslaughter by stabbing, serious maiming, highway robbery, burglary, arson, sodomy, buggery, rape, concealing the death of a bastard child, advising the killing such a child, and witchcraft. Later in the period counterfeiting was added to the list. …
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Exploring process and outcomes of a therapeutic homicide bereavement service
There is growing evidence investigating the aftermath of homicide on those families bereaved. The literature suggests a potentially devastating emotional and psychological impact on family members and loved ones. Despite this, the research focused on developing and empirically evaluating service …
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The Criminalisation of Adverse Medical Events in Criminal Negligence Cases: Exploring Fate, Agency, and Pragmatism in the Construction of Blame for Alleged Physician Negligence
The criminal law has been critiqued as an unsuitable system to regulate adverse medical events (AME) because the unintentional nature of AME renders it incompatible with the penal objectives of the criminal law. This project uses an interpretivist approach to examine how blameworthiness is …
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Factors associated with intimate partner homicide in a West Australian context
Domestic Violence (DV) is prevalent within Australian society with one in four women experiencing some form ofDV (ABS 2017) in their life. The Australian homicide rate is about 250 deaths per year, of which 52% are domestic related (Virueda & Payne 2010). Domestic homicides include Intimate Partner …