Crime without Punishment Aspects of the History of Homicide
Innbundet /
2018
/ Engelsk
Product details
ISBN
9781108427531
Published
2018-05-31
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Weight
350 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
158 mm
Thickness
13 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
152
Author
Biographical note
Lawrence M. Friedman is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor at Stanford Law School, Stanford University. He has written and edited over forty books on legal history and the relationship between law and society.
In this compelling book, Lawrence M. Friedman looks at situations where killing is condemned by law but not by social norms and, therefore, is rarely punished. He shows how penal codes categorize homicides by degree of intent, which are in turn based on society's sense of moral outrage. Despite being officially defined as murder, many homicides have historically gone unpunished. Friedman looks at early vigilante justice, crimes of passion, murder of necessity, mercy killings, and assisted suicides. In his explorations of these unpunished homicides, Friedman probes what these circumstances tell us about conflicts in social and cultural norms, and the interaction of law and society.
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Introduction; 1. Popular justice and injustice; 2. The unwritten law; 3. Dead on arrival; 4. The quality of mercy; 5. Black swans; 6. The meaning of unwritten law.
Explores different examples of unpunished homicides and what these tell us about the interaction of law and society.
Product details
ISBN
9781108427531
Published
2018-05-31
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Weight
350 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
158 mm
Thickness
13 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
152
Author