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The backdrop to this special issue derives from a fundamental aim to invite leading academicians to consider optimal reform conceptualisations within the parameters of reform of homicide principles and practice, guided by comparative analyses and international perspectives. It is a truism that all jurisdictional legal systems, predicated on either civil or common law determinations, equate in their treatment of homicide as the most heinous offence(s) in their domestic typology of crimes. There is a broadened stratification of commonality across jurisdictions: there is inculcated more than one type of homicide offence; reflectively a proportionality in sentencing that applies with the most serious offences attracting severer punishments; and murder sits at the apex of cross-border criminal justice system liability. Outwith those reciprocal perspectives, however, the boundaries and extent of culpability are dissonant from one jurisdiction to another as Mitchell1 has cogently adumbrated in...
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