Murder and the reasonable man : passion and fear in the criminal courtroom / Cynthia Lee.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Cynthia, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2003]
Series:Critical America.
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Table of Contents:
  • Female infidelity
  • Unreasonable women, gay men, and men of color
  • Gay panic
  • Culture and crime
  • An overview of the doctrine of self-defense
  • Race and self-defense
  • Race and police use of deadly force
  • The elusive meaning of reasonableness
  • Toward a normative conception of reasonableness
  • The act-emotion distinction.