Homicide Justified

Author : Andrew Fede
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820351121
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homicide Justified written by Andrew Fede and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases--across time, place, and circumstance--to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters' rights to severely punish and even kill their slaves while protecting valuable enslaved people, understood as "property," from wanton destruction by hirers, overseers, and poor whites who did not own slaves. To explore the conflicts of masters' rights with state and colonial laws, Fede shows how slave homicide law evolved and was enforced not only in the United States but also in ancient Roman, Visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British jurisdictions. His comparative approach reveals how legal reforms regarding slave homicide in antebellum times, like past reforms dictated by emperors and kings, were the products of changing perceptions of the interests of the public; of the individual slave owners; and of the slave owners' families, heirs, and creditors. Although some slave murders came to be regarded as capital offenses, the laws con-sistently reinforced the second-class status of slaves. This influence, Fede concludes, flowed over into the application of law to free African Americans and would even make itself felt in the legal attitudes that underlay the Jim Crow era.

Author : Dan Brown
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638852812
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justifiable Homicide written by Dan Brown and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Justifiable Homicide, exams twenty actual criminal cases where a woman has been charged with the crime of murder as the result of a homicide where the victim is a man. What does the criminal justice system do with a woman who is on trial for murder? An interesting question. The answer may surprise any person who reads this book.

Author : Andrew T. Fede
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820351113
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homicide Justified written by Andrew T. Fede and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases—across time, place, and circumstance—to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters’ rights to severely punish and even kill their slaves while protecting valuable enslaved people, understood as “property,” from wanton destruction by hirers, overseers, and poor whites who did not own slaves. To explore the conflicts of masters’ rights with state and colonial laws, Fede shows how slave homicide law evolved and was enforced not only in the United States but also in ancient Roman, Visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British jurisdictions. His comparative approach reveals how legal reforms regarding slave homicide in antebellum times, like past reforms dictated by emperors and kings, were the products of changing perceptions of the interests of the public; of the individual slave owners; and of the slave owners’ families, heirs, and creditors. Although some slave murders came to be regarded as capital offenses, the laws con­sistently reinforced the second-class status of slaves. This influence, Fede concludes, flowed over into the application of law to free African Americans and would even make itself felt in the legal attitudes that underlay the Jim Crow era.

Author : Suzanne Uniacke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521564588
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Permissible Killing written by Suzanne Uniacke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do individuals have a positive right of self-defence? And if so, what are the limits of this right? Under what conditions, if any, does this use of force extend to the defence of others? These are some of the issues explored by Dr Uniacke in this comprehensive philosophical discussion of the principles relevant to self-defence as a moral and legal justification of homicide. She establishes a unitary right of self-defence and defence of others, one which grounds the permissibility of the use of necessary and proportionate defensive force against culpable and non-culpable, active and passive, unjust threats. Particular topics discussed include: the nature of moral and legal justification and excuse; natural law justifications of homicide in self-defence; the Principle of Double Effect and the claim that homicide in self-defence is justified as unintended killing; and the question of self-preferential killing. This is a lucid and sophisticated account of the complex notion of justification, revolving around a critical discussion of recent trends in the law of self-defence.

Author : Whitley R. P. Kaufman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780739128992
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justified Killing written by Whitley R. P. Kaufman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The right of self-defense is seemingly at odds with the general presupposition that killing is wrong; numerous theories have been put forth over the years that attempt to explain how self-defense is consistent with such a presupposition. In Justified Killing: The Paradox of Self-Defense, Whitley Kaufman argues that none of the leading theories adequately explains why it is permissible even to kill an innocent attacker in self-defense, given the basic moral prohibition against killing the innocent. Kaufman suggests that such an explanation can be found in the traditional Doctrine of Double Effect, according to which self-defense is justified because the intention of the defender is to protect himself rather than harm the attacker. Given this morally legitimate intention, self-defense is permissible against both culpable and innocent aggressors, so long as the force used is both necessary and proportionate. Justified Killing will intrigue in particular those scholars interested in moral and legal philosophy.

Author : Texas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.G6/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Branch's Annotated Penal Code of the State of Texas with Notes, Citations, and Trial Briefs, and Some Forms written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cynthia K. Gillespie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justifiable Homicide written by Cynthia K. Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines over 300 cases in which women have attempted to defend themselves from violent partners.

Author : Jodi M. Brown
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Policing and Homicide, 1976-98 written by Jodi M. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Search Group
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of Criminal Justice Data Terminology written by Search Group and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1764 pages
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