Awards

• Runner-up for Donner Prize 1999
• Runner-up for Donner Prize 1999.

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Author:   David Paciocco
Publisher:   Irwin Law Inc
Imprint:   Irwin Law Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781552210437

ISBN 10:   155221043
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   01 February 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Preface PART ONE: FAITH AND JUSTICE CHAPTER 1: The Credibility Crisis PART TWO: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT CHAPTER 2: In Defence of the Need to Punish CHAPTER 3: Conditional Justice CHAPTER 4: The Injustice of Parole PART THREE: GETTING OFF ON TECHNICALITIES: THE RULE OF LAW CHAPTER 5: Defining Crime CHAPTER 6: Getting Off on Technicalities PART FOUR: PROVING GUILT AND MAINTAINING INNOCENCE CHAPTER 7: The Specific Allegation CHAPTER 8: Presumed Innocent CHAPTER 9: Closing Our Eyes to Find the Truth CHAPTER 10: Abandoning the Search for the Truth PART FIVE: JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE CHAPTER 11: Forgiving Human Weakness CHAPTER 12: Kill or Be Killed: The Law of Self-Defence CHAPTER 13: Losing Control: Provocation and Excusing the Inexcusable CHAPTER 14: The Abuse Excuse: ""Psychobabble"" and the Protection of Basic Values CHAPTER 15: Disordered Minds: Insanity, Automatism, and Intoxication PART SIX: THE ROLE OF THE VICTIM CHAPTER 16: The Sad Truth About Victims' Rights CONCLUSION CHAPTER 17: Responding to the Credibility Crisis Notes

Reviews

Paciocco provokes readers into challenging their own opinions on important criminal justice matters. Many of his conclusions are as blunt and unsettling as they are articulate. --The Vancouver Sun

""...consistently challenging and absorbing... . For anyone who prefers to understand and think before deciding whether to join in the outrage, Getting Away with Murder is mandatory reading.""--The Ottawa Citizen ""Getting Away with Murder makes an important and timely contribution to discussion of reforming our justice system. Anyone interested in crime and justice should read it. Along the way, they will learn a great deal about the law and the administration of justice.""--The Globe and Mail ""Paciocco provokes readers into challenging their own opinions on important criminal justice matters. Many of his conclusions are as blunt and unsettling as they are articulate.""--The Vancouver Sun

Author Information

The Honourable Justice David M Paciocco of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, professor emeritus, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, was formerly a justice of the Ontario Court of Justice. While a professor, he served as a prosecutor over a period of several years before engaging in a specialized criminal defence practice. His academic writings have been relied upon, on numerous occasions, by courts in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, and by the Privy Council.

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