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Murder and the Reasonable Man : Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom.
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 br...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Crimes of Passion (The Doctrine of Provocation); 1 Female Infidelity; 2 Unreasonable Women, Gay Men, and Men of Color; 3 Gay Panic; 4 Culture and Crime; II Crimes of Fear (The Doctrine of Self-Defense); 5 An Overview of the Doctrine of Self-Defense; 6 Race and Self-Defense; 7 Race and Police Use of Deadly Force; III Rethinking Reasonableness; 8 The Elusive Meaning of Reasonableness; 9 Toward a Normative Conception of Reasonableness; 10 The Act-Emotion Distinction; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.