Robert Asher & Lawrence B. Goodheart 
Murder on Trial [PDF ebook] 
1620-2002

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This fascinating collection examines murder jurisprudence—the social rules that govern the arrest, trial, and punishment of people accused of murder—in the United States from the colonial period to the present. The contributors show how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law by highlighting the ways cultural biases like racism, changing ideas about childhood and insanity, and the ameliorative effects of middle class status and paternal imagery both helped and handicapped persons accused of murder. Such famous cases as the Lizzie Borden axe murder and African American activist Abu-Jamal’s murder trial are included.
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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

Giới thiệu về tác giả

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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