Introduction / Alan Reed and Michael Bohlander -- The new diminished responsibility plea : more than mere modernisation? / Ronnie Mackay -- The modern partial defence of diminished responsibility / Rudi Fortson -- Loss of self-control under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 : oh no! / Barry Mitchell -- The model of tolerance and self-restraint / Richard Taylor -- The serious wrong of domestic abuse and the loss of control defence / Jonathan Herring -- Loss of self-control : when his anger is worth more than her fear / Susan S.M. Edwards -- Feminism, "typical" women, and losing control / Neil Cobb and Anna Gausden -- Sexual infidelity killings : contemporary standardisations and comparative stereotypes / Alan Reed and Nicola Wake -- Killing in response to "circumstances of an extremely grave character" : improving the law on homicide / Jesse Elvin -- The view from Ireland / John E. Stannard -- Partial defences to murder in Scotland : an unlikely tranquility / James Chalmers -- Anglo-American perspectives on partial defences : something old, something borrowed, and something new / Alan Reed and Nicola Wake -- Provoking a range of responses : the provocation defence in British overseas territories and crown dependencies / Claire de Than -- A comparative analysis of English and French defences to demonstrate the limitations of the concept of loss of control / Catherine Elliot -- When the bough breaks : defences and sentencing options available in battered-women and similar scenarios under German criminal law / Michael Bohlander -- Partial defences to murder in New Zealand / Warren Brookbanks -- Abnormal mental state mitigations or murder : the US perspective / Paul H. Robinson -- The conflation of provocation and justification: an analysis of partial defences to murder in Islamic law / Mohammed M. Heddayati-Kakhki -- Provocation and diminished responsibility in Dutch homicide law / Hein D. Wolswijk -- Partial defences due to loss of control and diminished responsibility under Spanish criminal law / Mauel Cancio Meliâa -- 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 -- Diminished responsibility and loss of control : the perspective of international criminal law / John Cubbon.