Author | : Allan C. Hutchinson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107123860 |
This book examines how the common law works through profiles of eight great cases.
Author | : Allan C. Hutchinson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107123860 |
This book examines how the common law works through profiles of eight great cases.
Author | : Mark Cooney |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2009-10-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813928354 |
"Thou shalt not kill" is arguably the most basic moral and legal principle in any society. Yet while some killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved and acquitted, and still others are lauded and lionized. Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treated depends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive or defensive, intentional or accidental. But those factors cannot explain the enormous variation in legal officials' and citizens' responses to real-life homicides. Cooney argues that a radically new style of thought—pure sociology—can. Conceived by the sociologist Donald Black, pure sociology makes no reference to psychology, to any single person's intent, or even to individuals as such. Instead, pure sociology explains behavior in terms of its social geometry—its location and direction in a multidimensional social space. Is Killing Wrong? provides the most comprehensive assessment of pure sociology yet attempted. Drawing on data from well over one hundred societies, including the modern-day United States, it represents the most thorough account yet of case-level social control, or the response to conduct defined as wrong. In doing so, it demonstrates that the law and morality of homicide are neither universal nor relative but geometrical, as predicted by Black's theory.
Author | : Allan C. Hutchinson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2010-11-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1139495275 |
Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing and down-the-street experience. It explores the social circumstances in which the cases arose and the ordinary people whose stories influenced and shaped the law as well as the characters and institutions (lawyers, judges and courts) that did much of the heavy lifting. By examining the consequences and fallout of these decisions, the book depicts the common law as an experimental, dynamic, messy, productive, tantalizing and bottom-up process, thereby revealing the diverse and uncoordinated attempts by the courts to adapt the law to changing conditions and shifting demands. Great cases are one way to glimpse the workings of the common law as an untidy but stimulating exercise in human judgment and social accomplishment.
Author | : Jeff McMahan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780195169829 |
Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, Jeff McMahan looks at various issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
Author | : Jonathan Foiles |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1948742489 |
Jonathan Foiles weaves together psychology and public policy, exploring the trauma underlying urbanization in a book Kirkus Reviews calls an "urgent call for reform." When Jonathan Foiles was a graduate studen
Author | : Andy Andrews |
Publisher | : Thomas Nelson |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2012-01-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0849949904 |
How do you get away with the murder of 11 million people? The answer is simple—and disturbing. You lie to them. Learn how you can become an informed, passionate citizen who demands honesty and integrity from your leaders. In this nonpartisan New York Times bestselling book, Andy Andrews emphasizes that seeking and discerning the truth is of critical importance, and that believing lies is the most dangerous thing you can do. You’ll be challenged to become a more careful student of the past, seeking accurate, factual accounts of events that illuminate choices our world faces now. By considering how the Nazi German regime was able to carry out over eleven million institutional killings between 1933 and 1945, Andrews advocates for an informed population that demands honesty and integrity from its leaders and from each other. This short, thought-provoking book poses questions like: What happens to a society in which truth is absent? How are we supposed to tell the difference between the “good guys" and the “bad guys”? How does the answer to this question affect our country, families, faith, and values? Does it matter that millions of ordinary citizens aren't participating in the decisions that shape the future of our country? Which is more dangerous: politicians with ill intent, or the too-trusting population that allows such people to lead them? This is a wake-up call: we must become informed, passionate citizens or suffer the consequences of our own ignorance and apathy. We can no longer measure a leader’s worth by the yardsticks provided by the left or the right. Instead, we must use an unchanging standard: the pure, unvarnished truth.
Author | : Steven Luper |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2014-02-13 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1107022878 |
This volume discusses the philosophical issues connected with the nature and significance of life and death, and the ethics of killing. It will be of interest to all those taking courses on the philosophy of life and death, applied ethics covering abortion, euthanasia, and suicide, and ethics and metaphysics.
Author | : Dave Grossman |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1497629209 |
A controversial psychological examination of how soldiers’ willingness to kill has been encouraged and exploited to the detriment of contemporary civilian society. Psychologist and US Army Ranger Dave Grossman writes that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to pull the trigger in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. The mental cost for members of the military, as witnessed by the increase in post-traumatic stress, is devastating. The sociological cost for the rest of us is even worse: Contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army’s conditioning techniques and, Grossman argues, is responsible for the rising rate of murder and violence, especially among the young. Drawing from interviews, personal accounts, and academic studies, On Killing is an important look at the techniques the military uses to overcome the powerful reluctance to kill, of how killing affects the soldier, and of the societal implications of escalating violence.
Author | : Ryan C. Jenkins |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0190495650 |
This volume collects influential and groundbreaking philosophical work on killing in war. A "who's who" of contemporary scholars, this volume serves as a convenient and authoritative collection uniquely suited for university-level teaching and as a reference for ethicists, policymakers, stakeholders, and any student of the morality of war.