| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 279 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Adjudicating homicide : the legal framework and social norms / Robert Asher, Lawrence B. Goodheart, and Alan Rogers -- Cross-cultural "Murther" and retribution in colonial New England / John J. Navin -- Jim Crow justice, the Richmond Planet, and the murder of Lucy Pollard / Michael A. Trotti -- Justice denied : race and the 1982 murder trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal / Dave Lindorff -- Murder and minors : changing standards in the criminal law of Connecticut, 1650-1853 / Nancy H. Steenburg -- Murder and madness : the ambiguity of moral insanity in nineteenth-century Connecticut / Lawrence B. Goodheart -- Mad men and wronged women : murder and the insanity defense in Massachusetts, 1844-2000 / Alan Rogers -- Murder by inches : Shakers, family, and the death of Elder Caleb Dyer / Elizabeth A. De Wolfe -- "He has ravished my poor, simple, innocent wife!" : exploring the meaning of honor in the murder trials of George W. Cole / Laura-Eve Moss -- Bodies of evidence : inquest photography in the trial of Lizzie Borden / Tiffany Johnson Bidler. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Murder -- United States -- History.
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Murder. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Homicide -- United States -- History.
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Homicide. |
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New England.
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New England. |
| Indexed Term |
New England |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Asher, Robert.
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Goodheart, Lawrence B., 1944-
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Rogers, Alan, 1936-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Murder on trial. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005 079146377X 0791463788 (DLC) 2004009619 (OCoLC)55067041 |
| ISBN |
1423748042 (electronic book) |
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9781423748045 (electronic book) |
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079146377X (hardcopy ; alkaline paper) |
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9780791463772 (hardcopy ; alkaline paper) |
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0791463788 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780791463789 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780791483619 |
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0791483614 |
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