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  • Brown, Richard Maxwell  (2)
  • New York : Oxford University Press  (2)
  • Paris : OECD Publishing
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780198021438 , 0198021437 , 1280523387 , 9781280523380
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online Ressource (268 p.)
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Brown, Richard Maxwell No duty to retreat
    DDC: 303.60973
    Schlagwort(e): Violence History ; 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
    Kurzfassung: 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
    Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-251) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Online-Ressource
    Online-Ressource
    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 1601295677 , 9781601295675 , 9780195019438 , 0195019431 , 9780198020172 , 0198020171
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online Ressource (xiii, 397 p.)
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.
    Paralleltitel: Print version Strain of violence
    DDC: 303.60973
    Schlagwort(e): Violence United States ; Violence États-Unis ; Vigilance, Comités de United States ; Vigilance committees ; Violence ; Violence ; Vigilance committees ; Vigilance committees ; Violence ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Violence in Society ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: These essays, written by leading historian of violence and Presidential Commission consultant Richard Maxwell Brown, consider the challenges posed to American society by the criminal, turbulent, and depressed elements of American life and the violent response of the established order. Covering violent incidents from colonial American to the present, Brown presents illuminating discussions of violence and the American Revolution, black-white conflict from slave revolts to the black ghetto riots of the 1960s, the vigilante tradition, and two of America's most violent regions--Central Texas, whic
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1. Patterns of American Violence; Part II: EARLY AMERICAN ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE AND EXTREMISM; 2. Violence and the American Revolution; 3. South Carolina Extremism and Its Violent Origins: From the Regulator Movement to the Edgefield Tradition, 1760-1960; Part III: VIGILANTISM: THE CONSERVATIVE MOB; 4. The American Vigilante Tradition; 5. Pivot of American Vigilantism: The San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856; 6. Lawless Lawfulness: Legal and Behavioral Perspectives on American Vigilantism; Part IV: VIOLENT PATHS TO THE PRESENT.
    Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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