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Multicultural jurisprudence : comparative perspectives on the cultural defense /

This title presents controversial and critical essays which question the existence of a universal approach to the theory of law.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Foblets, Marie-Claire, 1959-, Renteln, Alison Dundes
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Hart Pub., 2009.
Colección:Oñati international series in law and society.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Culture defence in English common law : the potential for development / Gordon R. Woodman
  • Culture, crime, and culpability : perspectives on the defence of provocation / Kumaralingam Amirthalingam
  • Use and abuse of the cultural defense / Alison Dundes Renteln
  • Cultural defence in Spain / Barbara Truffin and César Arjona
  • Visions of a multicultural criminal law : an Australian perspective / Simon Bronitt
  • The paradox of cultural differences in Dutch criminal law / Mirjam Siesling and Jeroen Ten Voorde
  • The cultural defence in criminal law : South African perspectives / Pieter A. Carstens
  • Criminalising Romani culture through law / Joke Kusters
  • Honor killings and the cultural defense in Germany / Sylvia Maier
  • A critique of 'loss of face' arguments in cultural defense cases : a comparative study / Cher Weixia Chen
  • The paradox of the cultural defence : gender and cultural othering in Canada / Maneesha Deckha
  • Dealing with the ethnic other in criminal law practice : a case study from the Netherlands / Brenda Carina Oude Breuil
  • Cultural defence and societal dynamics / Erik Claes and Jogchum Vrielink
  • Anthropologist as expert witness : the case of a murder in Maine / John L. Caughey.