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Title: | A Right to Kill? | Contributor(s): | Livings, Ben (author) | Publication Date: | 2010 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15661 | Abstract: | This paper considers the crime of assisting suicide, in the wake of the prosecutorial policy issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions in February 2010. The policy, which affects England and Wales, states that prosecutions will not be undertaken, notwithstanding the criminal nature of an act under s.2 of the Suicide Act 1961, where a number of factors are (or are not) present. It will be argued that this has the effect of causing a schism within the criminal law: whereas assisting suicide remains a crime under the substantive law, it has undergone 'de facto' decriminalisation in the circumstances outlined under the new policy. This places a person considering his or her potential criminal liability as an assistant in an invidious position. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Law, Morality and Power : Global Perspectives on Violence and the State, p. 95-101 | Publisher: | Inter-Disciplinary Press | Place of Publication: | Oxford, United Kingdom | ISBN: | 9781848880412 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940403 Criminal Justice | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.academia.edu/239353/Law_Morality_and_Power_Global_Perspectives_on_Violence_and_the_State | Series Name: | At the Interface | Editor: | Editor(s): Stephen King, Carlo Salzani & Owen Staley |
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