No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society

by RichardMaxwellBrown (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $24.45

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $74.54

  A discussion of crime, law and society in the USA, which demonstrates that surges in crime since the 1950s have coincided with the emergence of the post-industrial society. It examines the growing popularity of the concept that persons under physical attack have the right to defend themselves.