United States of America V. Roth
Title | United States of America V. Roth PDF eBook |
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Release | 1976 |
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United States of America V. Roth
Title | United States of America V. Roth PDF eBook |
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Pages | 54 |
Release | 1976 |
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Brief for the United States
Title | Brief for the United States PDF eBook |
Author | United States |
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Pages | 125 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Obscenity (Law) |
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Obscenity Rules
Title | Obscenity Rules PDF eBook |
Author | Whitney Strub |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Trials (Obscenity) |
ISBN | 9780700619368 |
An examination of the landmark 1957 Supreme Court case Roth v. United States, which for the first time attempted to define what constitutes obscenity in American life and law. Explores this problematic ruling within the broad sweep of American social and legal history.
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1965, No. 582
Title | In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1965, No. 582 PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Roth |
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Pages | 125 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Trials (Obscenity) |
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American Homicide
Title | American Homicide PDF eBook |
Author | Randolph Roth |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 672 |
Release | 2010-02-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0674054547 |
In American Homicide, Randolph Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. Roth argues that the United States is distinctive in its level of violence among unrelated adults—friends, acquaintances, and strangers. America was extraordinarily homicidal in the mid-seventeenth century, but it became relatively non-homicidal by the mid-eighteenth century, even in the slave South; and by the early nineteenth century, rates in the North and the mountain South were extremely low. But the homicide rate rose substantially among unrelated adults in the slave South after the American Revolution; and it skyrocketed across the United States from the late 1840s through the mid-1870s, while rates in most other Western nations held steady or fell. That surge—and all subsequent increases in the homicide rate—correlated closely with four distinct phenomena: political instability; a loss of government legitimacy; a loss of fellow-feeling among members of society caused by racial, religious, or political antagonism; and a loss of faith in the social hierarchy. Those four factors, Roth argues, best explain why homicide rates have gone up and down in the United States and in other Western nations over the past four centuries, and why the United States is today the most homicidal affluent nation.
United States of America V. Roth
Title | United States of America V. Roth PDF eBook |
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Pages | 140 |
Release | 1988 |
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