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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Adjudicating Homicide: The Legal Framework and Social Norms
Robert Asher, Lawrence B. Goodheart, and Alan Rogers
Race
2. Cross-Cultural "Murther" and Retribution in Colonial New England
John J. Navin
3. Jim Crow Justice, the Richmond Planet, and the Murder of Lucy Pollard
Michael Ayers Trotti
4. Justice Denied: Race and the 1982 Murder Trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Dave Lindorff
Mental Competency
5. Murder and Minors: Changing Standards in the Criminal Law of Connecticut, 1650-1853
Nancy H. Steenburg
6. Murder and Madness: The Ambiguity of Moral Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut
Lawrence B. Goodheart
7. Mad Men and Wronged Women: Murder and the Insanity Defense in Massachusetts, 1844-2000
Alan Rogers
Gender and Class Norms
8. Murder by Inches: Shakers, Family, and the Death of Elder Caleb Dyer
Elizabeth A. De Wolfe
9. "He Has Ravished my Poor Simple, Innocent Wife!": Exploring the Meaning of Honor in the Murder Trials of George W. Cole
Laura-Eve Moss
10. Bodies of Evidence: Inquest Photography in the Trial of Lizzie Borden
Tiffany Johnson Bidler
List of Contributors
Index
Sujets
Informations
Publié par | State University of New York Press |
Date de parution | 01 février 2012 |
Nombre de lectures | 0 |
EAN13 | 9780791483619 |
Langue | English |
Poids de l'ouvrage | 2 Mo |
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