Murder and the reasonable man
Subtitle: passion and fear in the criminal courtroom
By: Cynthia Lee
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781417588282
Subjects: Self-defense (Law); Murder; Criminal Law; Provocation (Criminal law); Judicial process; General; Social aspects; LAW
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-364) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Female infidelity; title: Unreasonable women, gay men, and men of color; title: Gay panic; title: Culture and crime; title: An overview of the doctrine of self-defense; title: Race and self-defense; title: Race and police use of deadly force; title: The elusive meaning of reasonableness; title: Toward a normative conception of reasonableness; title: The act-emotion distinction.