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No duty to retreat : violence and values in American history and society / / Richard Maxwell Brown



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Autore: Brown Richard Maxwell Visualizza persona
Titolo: No duty to retreat : violence and values in American history and society / / Richard Maxwell Brown Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1991
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
Disciplina: 303.6/0973
Soggetto topico: Violence - United States - History
Values - United States - History
Soggetto geografico: United States History
Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1992.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-251) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1 No Duty to Retreat in Law and the American Mind; 2 The Gunfighter: The Reality Behind the Myth; 3 California Conflict and the American Dream; 4 The Persistence of No Duty to Retreat: Crime, Law, and Society in America from the 1850's to the Present; 5 Conclusion: No Duty to Retreat in Retrospect and Prospect; Notes; Index;
Sommario/riassunto: A discussion of crime, law and society in the USA, which demonstrates that surges in crime since the 1950's have coincided with the emergence of the post-industrial society. It examines the growing popularity of the concept that persons under physical attack have the right to defend themselves.
Titolo autorizzato: No duty to retreat  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-771503-6
0-19-028143-X
1-280-52338-7
0-19-802143-7
1-4294-0736-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910821055603321
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.