Murder on trial : 1620-2002 /
"This collection examines murder jurisprudence - the social rules that govern the arrest, trial, and punishment of people accused of murder - in the United States from the colonial period to the present. The contributors show how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder l...
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Adjudicating homicide : the legal framework and social norms / Robert Asher, Lawrence B. Goodheart, and Alan Rogers
- Cross-cultural "Murther" and retribution in colonial New England / John J. Navin
- Jim Crow justice, the Richmond Planet, and the murder of Lucy Pollard / Michael A. Trotti
- Justice denied : race and the 1982 murder trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal / Dave Lindorff
- Murder and minors : changing standards in the criminal law of Connecticut, 1650-1853 / Nancy H. Steenburg
- Murder and madness : the ambiguity of moral insanity in nineteenth-century Connecticut / Lawrence B. Goodheart
- Mad men and wronged women : murder and the insanity defense in Massachusetts, 1844-2000 / Alan Rogers
- Murder by inches : Shakers, family, and the death of Elder Caleb Dyer / Elizabeth A. De Wolfe
- "He has ravished my poor, simple, innocent wife!" : exploring the meaning of honor in the murder trials of George W. Cole / Laura-Eve Moss
- Bodies of evidence : inquest photography in the trial of Lizzie Borden / Tiffany Johnson Bidler.