Murder and the Reasonable Man : : Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom / / Cynthia Lee.
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 befo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2003] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical America ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART 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
- PART 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
- PART 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