CRI365H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Homicide, Lingnan Culture, Japanese Americans
20 Jun 2020
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Intend to accomplish the consequence that"s prohibited, don"t need to feel guilty or not or know that it"s wrong. In britain tea was absolute social lubricant, ritual around drinking tea, standard. In italy, coffee was an equivalent of that: coffee is a much more passionate, stronger drink, tea is much more passive and subtle. Italy people expect relative powerful expression of your grief. In u. s. plea bargain struck at voluntary manslaughter: defence argued that, in absence of cultural defence, behaviour should be. Leniency, partially psychiatric disposal: prosecution feared that if they used murder charge she could plead insanity and get out altogether, asking to be treated as she would in japan, what happens is a mixture. Chen case: cantonese man who brutally beat his wife to death after hearing she was being unfaithful, he moved to us and didn"t have family to support him, pressure that comes from his culture of.
