ISBN:
9780198021438
,
0198021437
,
1280523387
,
9781280523380
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (268 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Brown, Richard Maxwell No duty to retreat
DDC:
303.60973
Keywords:
Violence History
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United States
;
Values History
;
United States
;
Violence Histoire
;
États-Unis
;
Valeurs (Philosophie) Histoire
;
États-Unis
;
Values History
;
Violence History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Violence in Society
;
Values
;
Violence
;
Geweld
;
Zelfverdediging
;
History
;
United States History
;
États-Unis Histoire
;
United States
;
United States History
;
United States
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
No Duty to Retreat takes as its starting-point the increased popularity in American society of the old English common-law concept that a person under physical attack has the right to stand his ground, defend himself, and even kill his assailant in self-defence in certain circumstances. This doctrine came to public awareness recently when Berhard Goetz took the law into his own hands when assaulted by four youths in a New York City subway train. There is a chapter on the American as gunfighter, another on a famous vigilante case in California in the 1870s, when farmers retaliated against the Southern Pacific Railroad trying to move them off their lands , and a long chapter discussing 'crime, law, and society in America since 1930', in which Brown shows that the crime surge since the 1950s has occurred with the emergence of the Post-Industrial Society, which has left many people alienated and looking for quick solutions
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-251) and index. - Description based on print version record
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