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The term provocation, besides its generic meaning of "an act to be a cause of something", has the following technical meanings.
Provocation, a type of defense in court.
Provocation within a (political) group as a means to disrupt its activity.
Provocation, a way of medical testing, e.g., for allergy.
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In our reformulation of the defence of provocation, we recommend the abolition of the ordinary person test, focusing instead on the individual accused’s mental state rather than whether his or her actions were justified, in light of the gravity of the victim’s conduct as assessed according to the standards of a hypothetical ordinary person.
The defence of provocation remains necessary as a means of involving the community, as represented by the jury, in the process of determining the degree of an accused’s culpability according to his or her loss of self-control in response to provocation.
In addition, it may be argued that a requirement under the defence of provocation for a suspension of the accused’s reason is inconsistent with another element of the defence, that the accused intended to kill or to cause grievous bodily harm or to act with reckless indifference to human life.
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