Reducing murder to manslaughter: whose job?

Reducing murder to manslaughter: whose job?

This paper compares two versions of the diminished responsibility defence, which reduces murder to manslaughter: the present statutory formulation and a proposed reformulation. The comparison confirms that evidence such as psychiatrists are commonly invited to give in murder cases takes them beyond their proper role. Paradoxically, although the two formulations mean essentially the same thing, ...

Adolescents accused of murder and manslaughter: a five-year descriptive study.

Reducing Supply-Side Disincentives to Job Creation

At least since Friedman's (1968) American Economic Association Presidential address, macro and labor economists have recognized that a certain level of unemployment is a "natural" consequence of dynamic friction that accompanies the process by which workers are allocated and reallocated among employment opportunities. Friedman (1 968) summarizes his famous definition of the natural rate as foll...

HCI: whose job is it anyway?

A panel of experts on human computer interaction (HCI) argues about who is best placed to ‘own’ HCI and the user centred design process, The experts come from a range of private and public sector organisations, both large (like Microsoft and the NHS) and small (System Concepts). The format of the panel will be loosely based on the popular radio and TV panel game “Whose line is it anyway?”

Commentary: Reducing Supply-Side Disincentives to Job Creation

The focus of this conference on the supply side of the economy is fine, but we can get more mileage out of the discussion if we zoom in on the interaction between the supply side and the demand side. It was not a sudden deterioration in the supply side of the economy, such as a drastic reduction in the flexibility of the labor market, that triggered the rise in unemployment in the Organization ...