Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Adjudicating Homicide: The Legal Framework and Social Norms
Robert Asher, Lawrence B. Goodheart, and Alan Rogers
Race
2. Cross-Cultural ‘Murther’ and Retribution in Colonial New England
John J. Navin
3. Jim Crow Justice, the Richmond Planet, and the Murder of Lucy Pollard
Michael Ayers Trotti
4. Justice Denied: Race and the 1982 Murder Trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Dave Lindorff
Mental Competency
5. Murder and Minors: Changing Standards in the Criminal Law of Connecticut, 1650-1853
Nancy H. Steenburg
6. Murder and Madness: The Ambiguity of Moral Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut
Lawrence B. Goodheart
7. Mad Men and Wronged Women: Murder and the Insanity Defense in Massachusetts, 1844-2000
Alan Rogers
Gender and Class Norms
8. Murder by Inches: Shakers, Family, and the Death of Elder Caleb Dyer
Elizabeth A. De Wolfe
9. ‘He Has Ravished my Poor Simple, Innocent Wife!’: Exploring the Meaning of Honor in the Murder Trials of George W. Cole
Laura-Eve Moss
10. Bodies of Evidence: Inquest Photography in the Trial of Lizzie Borden
Tiffany Johnson Bidler
List of Contributors
Index
Circa l’autore
Robert Asher is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Connecticut.Lawrence B. Goodheart is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut and author of
Mad Yankees: The Hartford Retreat for the Insane and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry.
Alan Rogers is Professor of History at Boston College.
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