03632nam 2200925Ia 450 991078326270332120200520144314.00-8147-6514-90-8147-5283-71-4175-8828-410.18574/nyu/9780814752838(CKB)1000000000031450(EBL)865656(OCoLC)779828169(SSID)ssj0000206909(PQKBManifestationID)11184065(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000206909(PQKBWorkID)10235465(PQKB)10683736(SSID)ssj0000667930(PQKBManifestationID)12330056(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000667930(PQKBWorkID)10699189(PQKB)23550662(OCoLC)58842147(MdBmJHUP)muse10650(Au-PeEL)EBL865656(CaPaEBR)ebr10078454(DE-B1597)547826(DE-B1597)9780814752838(MiAaPQ)EBC865656(EXLCZ)99100000000003145020021209d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMurder and the reasonable man[electronic resource] passion and fear in the criminal courtroom /Cynthia LeeNew York New York University Pressc20031 online resource (383 p.)Critical America ;37Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-5116-4 0-8147-5115-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-364) and index.Female infidelity -- Unreasonable women, gay men, and men of color -- Gay panic -- Culture and crime -- An overview of the doctrine of self-defense -- Race and self-defense -- Race and police use of deadly force -- The elusive meaning of reasonableness -- Toward a normative conception of reasonableness -- The act-emotion distinction.A man murders his wife after she has admitted her infidelity; another man kills an openly gay teammate after receiving a massage; a third man, white, goes for a jog in a "bad" neighborhood, carrying a pistol, and shoots an African American teenager who had his hands in his pockets. When brought before the criminal justice system, all three men argue that they should be found "not guilty"; the first two use the defense of provocation, while the third argues he used his gun in self-defense. Drawing upon these and similar cases, Cynthia Lee shows how two well-established, traditional criminal lawSelf-defense (Law)United StatesProvocation (Criminal law)United StatesMurderUnited StatesJudicial processSocial aspectsCynthia.acts.criminal.defendants.defenses--the.doctrines.justify.majority-culture.provocation.self-defense--enable.shows.their.traditional.violence.well-established.Self-defense (Law)Provocation (Criminal law)MurderJudicial processSocial aspects.345.73/04Lee Cynthia1961-1577111MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783262703321Murder and the reasonable man3855422UNINA