Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-366) and index.

Culture defence in English common law : the potential for development / Gordon R. Woodman -- Culture, crime, and culpability : perspectives on the defence of provocation / Kumaralingam Amirthalingam -- Use and abuse of the cultural defense / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Cultural defence in Spain / Barbara Truffin and César Arjona -- Visions of a multicultural criminal law : an Australian perspective / Simon Bronitt -- The paradox of cultural differences in Dutch criminal law / Mirjam Siesling and Jeroen Ten Voorde -- The cultural defence in criminal law : South African perspectives / Pieter A. Carstens -- Criminalising Romani culture through law / Joke Kusters -- Honor killings and the cultural defense in Germany / Sylvia Maier -- A critique of 'loss of face' arguments in cultural defense cases : a comparative study / Cher Weixia Chen -- The paradox of the cultural defence : gender and cultural othering in Canada / Maneesha Deckha -- Dealing with the ethnic other in criminal law practice : a case study from the Netherlands / Brenda Carina Oude Breuil -- Cultural defence and societal dynamics / Erik Claes and Jogchum Vrielink -- Anthropologist as expert witness : the case of a murder in Maine / John L. Caughey.