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Murder and the reasonable man : passion and fear in the criminal courtroom / / Cynthia Lee



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Autore: Lee Cynthia <1961-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Murder and the reasonable man : passion and fear in the criminal courtroom / / Cynthia Lee Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (383 p.)
Disciplina: 345.73/04
Soggetto topico: Self-defense (Law) - United States
Provocation (Criminal law) - United States
Murder - United States
Judicial process - Social aspects
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-364) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 law
Titolo autorizzato: Murder and the reasonable man  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-6514-9
0-8147-5283-7
1-4175-8828-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809167303321
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