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État
Bon: Un livre qui a été lu, mais qui est en bon état. La couverture présente des dommages infimes, ...
Brand
Unbranded
MPN
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ISBN
9780195074437
Book Title
Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law
Item Length
9.5 in
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year
1992
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.4 in
Author
Norval Morris
Genre
Law, Social Science
Topic
Criminal Law / General, Penology, Criminology
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
25.1 Oz
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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The mystery does not always end when the crime has been solved. Indeed, the most insolvable problems of crime and punishment are not so much who committed the crime, but how to see that justice is done. Now, in this illuminating volume, one of America's great legal thinkers, Norval Morris, addresses some of the most perplexing and controversial questions of justice in a highly singular fashion--by examining them in fictional form, in what he calls "parables of the law." The protagonist of these stories, the figure who must see that justice is done, is Eric Blair, a name familiar to most readers: it's the real name of George Orwell. In fact, Morris has set his tales in the time and place of Orwell's famous essay, "Shooting an Elephant," in Moulmein, Burma, in the 1920s. What might seem a curious strategy at first glance--borrowing Orwell's persona to narrate these tales--is actually a brilliant stroke. For in Eric Blair we have an ideal narrator to highlight the complexities of justice: an untrained police lieutenant and junior magistrate, uncertain of judgement--and all the more likely to anguish over judgement, and to examine every facet of a case before deciding. And in 1920s Moulmein we have a neutral time and space in which to consider--free of our own political, religious, or social prejudices--a set of contemporary legal and moral questions that rarely find so calm an arena. And these stories certainly address some highly charged issues--capital punishment, insanity as a murder defense, the "battered wife syndrome" as a murder defense, child custody, "parental neglect" due to religious conviction--to name a few. In each tale, Norval Morris excels at placing Blair at the center of a controversy that has no easy answer, and that he and he alone must decide. In the title story, for instance, a retarded boy, whose only understanding of sex comes from the brothel in which he works, accidentally murders a young girl while raping her, his only defense being "Please sir, I paid her." Blair can see that the boy doesn't realize that he has committed a crime, but both the Burmese and the European community of Moulmein demand the boy's execution. Does capital punishment make sense in such an instance? Does it ever make sense? To broaden our understanding of these intricate cases, Morris concludes each story with a perceptive and often provocative commentary on each issue. After "Brothel Boy," for instance, Morris points out that no reputable study has ever shown capital punishment to be an effective deterrent to future murders, and more surprisingly, that paroled murderers commit proportionately fewer homicides than paroled felons who used a firearm in the commission of their crime. Norval Morris is one of America's foremost experts on crime and punishment, and the stories collected here represent the culmination of a lifetime of thought on the major criminal law debates of our time. A reader of these tales will come away with a deeper understanding of these debates and with a profound respect for the intricacies of justice and the complexity of the law.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195074432
ISBN-13
9780195074437
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52284

Product Key Features

Book Title
Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law
Author
Norval Morris
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Criminal Law / General, Penology, Criminology
Publication Year
1992
Genre
Law, Social Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
25.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
K5018.M67 1992
Copyright Date
1992
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
91-032351
Dewey Decimal
345 342.5
Dewey Edition
20

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