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

• Autore: Lee Cynthia <1961->
• 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
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II