General defences in criminal law : domestic and comparative perspectives / edited by Alan Reed, and Michael Bohlander, with Nicola Wake, and Emma Smith.

1. How criminal defences work / William Wilson
2. Avoiding criminal liability and excessive punishment for persons who lack culpability : what can and should be done? / Bob Sullivan
3. Prior fault : blocking defences or constructing crimes / J.J. Child
4. Transfer of defences / Michael Bohlander
5. Consent in the criminal law : the importance of relationality and responsibility / Jonathan Herring
6. Good and harm, excuses, and justifications, and the moral narratives of necessity / Susan Edwards
7. Duress and normative moral excuse : comparative standardisations and the ambit of affirmative defences / Alan Reed
8. Of blurred boundaries and prior fault : insanity, automatism, and intoxication / Arlie Loughnan and Nicola Wake
9. Mistaken private defence : the case for reform / Claire de Than and Jesse Elvin
10. Statutory defences of reasonableness : inexcusable uncertainty or reasonable pragmatism / Christopher J. Newman.

11. How do they do that? Automatism, coercion, necessity, and Mens Rea in Scots criminal law / Claire McDiarmid
12. In a spirit of compromise : the Irish doctrine of excessive defence / John E. Stannard
13. Australia / Mirko Bagaric
14. Canada / Kent Roach
15. France / Catherine Elliott
16. Germany / Kai Ambos and Stefanie Bock
17. Islamic law / Mohammad M Hedayati-Kakhki
18. The Netherlands / Erik Gritter
19. New Zealand / Julia Tolmie
20. South Africa / Gerhard Kemp
21. Sweden / Petter Asp and Magnus Ulvang
22. Turkey / R Murat Onok
23. United States of America / Luis E Chiesa.