Cultural Evidence and Male Violence: Are Feminist and Multiculturalist Reformers on a Collision Course in Criminal Courts?
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Description
The American criminal justice system faces an important question: Can the courts permit defendants to introduce evidence of cultural background without condoning violence by men against women and children? In those trials in which cultural evidence is received, is the information entitled to such unquestioning deference that its receipt signals the recognition of a “cultural defense” to male violence?
Source Publication
Feminist Legal Theory: An Anti-Essentialist Reader
Source Editors/Authors
Nancy E. Dowd, Michelle S. Jacobs
Publication Date
2003
Recommended Citation
Maguigan, Holly, "Cultural Evidence and Male Violence: Are Feminist and Multiculturalist Reformers on a Collision Course in Criminal Courts?" (2003). Faculty Chapters. 1296.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1296
