num_pages: 272
description: The popular press dubbed him "the subway vigilante": Bernhard Goetz, who on December 22, 1984, shot four black youths on a New York subway train when one of them asked for five dollars. Goetz claimed to have fired in self-defense, out of fear that the young men were about to rob him.
language: English
title: A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial
titlecomplete: A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial
genres: Law, College, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 58
publisher: University of Chicago Press