Multicultural jurisprudence : comparative perspectives on the cultural defense / edited by Marie-Claire Foblets and Alison Dundes Renteln.
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TextSeries: Oñati international series in law and society: Publisher: Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2009Description: xiv, 378 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781841138954 (cloth); 1841138959 (cloth); 1841138967 (pbk.); 9781841138961 (pbk.)Subject(s): Actions and defenses -- Sociological aspects | Cultural defense (Law) | Law and globalization | Sociological jurisprudence | Multiculturalism -- Law and legislation | Cultural pluralism | Defense (Criminal procedure) -- Sociological aspects | Defense (Civil procedure) -- Sociological aspectsDDC classification: 340.115 LOC classification: K2229 | .M85 2009| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-366) and index.
Culture defence in English common law : the potential for development / Gordon R. Woodman -- Culture, crime, and culpability : perspectives on the defence of provocation / Kumaralingam Amirthalingam -- Use and abuse of the cultural defense / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Cultural defence in Spain / Barbara Truffin and César Arjona -- Visions of a multicultural criminal law : an Australian perspective / Simon Bronitt -- The paradox of cultural differences in Dutch criminal law / Mirjam Siesling and Jeroen Ten Voorde -- The cultural defence in criminal law : South African perspectives / Pieter A. Carstens -- Criminalising Romani culture through law / Joke Kusters -- Honor killings and the cultural defense in Germany / Sylvia Maier -- A critique of 'loss of face' arguments in cultural defense cases : a comparative study / Cher Weixia Chen -- The paradox of the cultural defence : gender and cultural othering in Canada / Maneesha Deckha -- Dealing with the ethnic other in criminal law practice : a case study from the Netherlands / Brenda Carina Oude Breuil -- Cultural defence and societal dynamics / Erik Claes and Jogchum Vrielink -- Anthropologist as expert witness : the case of a murder in Maine / John L. Caughey.

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