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ISBN 10: 079146377X

ISBN 13: 9780791463772

Author: Robert Asher, Lawrence B. Goodheart, Alan Rogers 

A historical romp through the fascinating subject of murder jurisprudence in the United States from the colonial period to the present, showing how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law.

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.

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.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. Adjudicating Homicide: The Legal Framework and Social Norms

3. Cross-Cultural “Murther” and Retribution in Colonial New England

4. Jim Crow Justice, the Richmond Planet, and the Murder of Lucy Pollard

5. Justice Denied: Race and the 1982 Murder Trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal

6. Murder and Minors: Changing Standards in the Criminal Law of Connecticut, 1650–1853

7. Murder and Madness: The Ambiguity of Moral Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut

8. Mad Men and Wronged Women: Murder and the Insanity Defense in Massachusetts, 1844–2000

9. Murder by Inches: Shakers, Family, and the Death of Elder Caleb Dyer

10. “He Has Ravished my Poor, Simple, Innocent Wife!”: Exploring the Meaning of Honor in the Murder Trials of George W. Cole

11. Bodies of Evidence: Inquest Photography in the Trial of Lizzie Borden

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