By Robert Asher, Lawrence B. Goodheart, Alan Rogers
ISBN-10: 079146377X
ISBN-13: 9780791463772
ISBN-10: 0791463788
ISBN-13: 9780791463789
ISBN-10: 1423748042
ISBN-13: 9781423748045
A ancient romp in the course of the attention-grabbing topic of homicide jurisprudence within the usa from the colonial interval to the current, displaying how altering social mores have inspired the applying of homicide law.
This attention-grabbing assortment examines homicide jurisprudence—the social ideas that govern the arrest, trial, and punishment of individuals accused of murder—in the U.S. from the colonial interval to the current. The participants express how altering social mores have stimulated the appliance of homicide legislations via highlighting the methods cultural biases like racism, altering rules approximately adolescence and madness, and the ameliorative results of heart type prestige and paternal imagery either helped and handicapped individuals accused of homicide. Such recognized situations because the Lizzie Borden awl homicide and African American activist Abu-Jamal’s homicide trial are included.
Robert Asher is Professor Emeritus of historical past on the collage of Connecticut.
Lawrence B. Goodheart is Professor of historical past on the collage of Connecticut and writer of Mad Yankees: The Hartford Retreat for the Insane and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry.
Alan Rogers is Professor of background at Boston College.
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Elizabeth A. De Wolfe shows that the trial defense used by Wier’s attorneys stressed his alleged temporary insanity, brought on by the effects of war and the loss of his children. But Wier was convicted. However, Wier’s wife, and eventually his daughter, waged a public campaign for his pardon, and received a great deal of support after arguing that because a father’s nurturing of his children was so important, Wier should be forgiven for murdering Dyer, who had headed a community whose rigid rules fragmented families and prevented fathers from parenting their children.
Shall be sent from this courthouse disgraced. . ”41 Laura-Eve Moss’s analysis of the acquittal of George W. Cole for the murder of L. Harris Hiscock, his willing wife’s adulterer, indicates that in the mid-nineteenth century many jurors held to the age-old belief that a man could not be blamed if, in a fit of rage after discovering adultery, he tried to vindicate his honor and his wife’s honor by murdering the adulterer. But this belief may have been amplified, in the thinking of juries, by the emergent notion that a temporarily insane person, driven to such insanity by justifiable anger over being dishonored, should not be punished for the ensuing violent assault.
42 After 1880, scientific racism, based on distortions of Charles Darwin’s writings, influenced many Americans, who concluded that the evolutionary process had led to the creation of many distinct human races, each of which had evolved at different rates. The descendants of immigrants from Northern European countries—England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany and the Scandinavian countries—believed they were members of the most highly evolved, superior races. Americans of Northern European stock believed that immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, who arrived in large numbers after 1880, were members of backward, less evolved races that were both highly immoral and intellectually inferior to the descendants of Northern European races.