Contents: Preface; 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 tranquillity, 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 Elliott; 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. Hedayati-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, Manuel Cancio Me.