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When Deadly Force Is Involved
A Look at the Legal Side of Stand Your Ground, Duty to Retreat and Other Questions of Self-Defense
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2017
Summary
Self-defense, as a legal concept, is easy to describe but difficult to apply. Generally, a person who is without fault may use reasonable force or defensive force for the purpose of defending one's own life or the lives of others, including, in certain circumstances, the use of deadly force, provided there is no reasonable alternative to avoid it. When someone begins to parse the words of this description, however, he or she runs immediately into a maze of self-defense laws that appear to be at odds with each other.
Bruce Lawlor clears up the confusion by identifying the major issues that surface in most self-defense cases and by describing how the law has dealt with them historically. Its purpose is not to provide legal advice, but to illuminate the path that must be taken to decide whether a claim of self-defense is valid. It examines a variety of issues, including the duty to retreat and stand-your ground laws, what is a deadly threat, when is fear of mortal danger reasonable, and even what happens when a person mistakenly shoots some in self-defense.
When Deadly Force Is Involved: A Look at the Legal Side of Stand Your Ground, Duty to Retreat and Other Questions of Self-Defense brings a bit of order to the confusion behind self-defense.
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Copyright year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-7528-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-7529-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
279
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
1 Necessity No access Pages 9 - 24
2 Intent No access Pages 25 - 40
3 Provocation No access Pages 41 - 58
4 Deadly Threats No access Pages 59 - 76
5 Verbal Threats No access Pages 77 - 92
6 Imminent Harm No access Pages 93 - 110
7 Reasonable Fear No access Pages 111 - 126
8 Duty to Retreat No access Pages 127 - 142
9 Stand Your Ground No access Pages 143 - 158
10 Castle Doctrine No access Pages 159 - 174
11 De-escalation No access Pages 175 - 190
12 Mistake No access Pages 191 - 206
13 Reasonable Force No access Pages 207 - 222
14 Threatened No access Pages 223 - 238
15 Decisions No access Pages 239 - 256
Notes No access Pages 257 - 264
Bibliography No access Pages 265 - 272
Index No access Pages 273 - 278
About the Author No access Pages 279 - 279
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