Is Killing Wrong?: A Study in Pure Sociology

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Page numbers followed by a “t” indicate references to tables. aborigines, 95, 123, 153, 154 acquaintances, 157; and law, 158, 162t, 163, 169, 212n3, 213n12; and partisanship , 172–73, 175; and popular justice, 178; and settlement, 177–78. See also relational distance acquittals. See courts, dispositions of africa, 96, 156. See also under individual countries and societies african americans, 50–51, 134, 139–40, 206n7, 209–10n6, 215n12; and law, 129–30, 135, 140–41, 148–50, 197, 210n8; —, and death penalty, 141–44, 189; and partisanship, 145, 146; and popular justice, 57, 106, 148, 151; and settlement, 146; —, as jurors, 146, 147t, 150–51, 199, 211n15, 211n18. See also race age, 168, 195; of killers, 129; of victims, 97–99, 128 agrarian societies, 42–45, 62 alabama, 140 albania, 58, 123, 204n6 algeria, 74 allen, Frederick, 4 america. See United States amnesty International, 48, 64, 67, 71, 72, 73, 74, 87, 97, 98, 119, 120, 126, 192, 207n7 apaches, 136, 137–38 arabs, 83, 85, 126–27 arbitration, 60, 81–83, 187 argentina, 71, 74 aristocrats, 42–45, 118–19, 188 arizona, 105, 136, 137–38 arkansas, 163 asia, 96. See also under individual countries and societies asian americans, 148, 150. See also Chinese americans athens, ancient, 122 attorneys. See lawyers australia, 95, 123, 139, 153, 154 autocracies, 65, 76–78, 79, 90, 197 autopsy, 9, 204n9 aztecs, 76 Baldus, David C., 50, 66, 100, 101, 112, 128, 129, 139, 142, 143, 144, 154, 162, 206n8, 208n11, 209n7, 210n12 Baltimore, 69, 113, 211n15 Barreti, Giuseppe, 191–92 Barton, roy Franklin, 58, 59, 83, 213– 14n17 Baumer, Eric P., 12, 81, 113–14, 208n2, 212n6 Baumgartner, M. P., 16, 20, 22, 27, 28, 32, 51, 54, 111, 176, 191, 208n4 Beattie, J. M., 8–9, 44, 95, 119, 166, 208n2, 209n2 Bedouin, 14, 59, 156 Behavior of Law, The. See Blackian theory benefit of clergy, 209n2 benefit of linen, 166 INDEX 242 Index Berbers, 123 Black, Donald, 5, 6, 7, 16, 18–28, 29–30, 37, 49, 51, 52, 54, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64, 65, 79–80, 81, 88, 89, 92, 93, 102, 110, 111, 118, 121, 122, 127, 129, 132, 145, 146, 150, 151, 154, 156, 157, 170, 171, 175, 176, 179, 191, 193, 194, 198, 199, 200, 204n7, 204n12, 205n4, 205n1, 209n2, 213n14, 214n3, 215n10. See also Blackian theory Blackfeet, 152 Blackian theory, 19–28, 30, 61, 62, 79, 88, 90, 107, 130, 133, 154, 167, 183, 186–88, 193, 195, 196, 209n2, 215n11; of law, 19, 25, 28, 34, 37–39, 64, 92, 111, 133, 156–57, 168, 188, 191; of moralism, 27, 28, 35; of moral relativity , 29–30, 35, 188; of partisanship, 27, 28, 51–52, 80, 90, 101, 102, 145–46, 170, 171, 192–93; of popular justice, 27, 34, 35, 57, 83, 157, 180–81, 190, 207n2; of settlement, 27, 35, 54, 81, 101, 102, 122, 146, 170, 176, 177; testing , 30–34, 35, 188, 205n4; validity of, 30, 35, 188–91, 194. See also pure sociology Blackstone, Sir William, 168–69 blind review of cases, 199 Boehm, Christopher, 61, 81–82 Borden, Lizzie, 176–77, 194 Bowers, William J., 50, 129, 142, 147 boyfriends. See intimate partners Brazil, 10–11, 71, 72, 74, 75, 79, 87, 91, 96–97, 97–98, 103–4, 123, 125, 192, 207n4, 208n12 Britain, 8, 9. See also under individual countries Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, 84, 104, 151 Buenos aires, 71 Burke, Edmund, 192 Bushmen of the kalahari, 17, 123 California: nineteenth-century, 53, 70, 73, 79, 86, 112, 136, 137, 138, 145, 147–48, 150, 185, 211n15, 213n3; modern, 12, 70, 85, 100, 114, 128, 162 Cambodia, 77 Campbell, Bradley, 28, 52, 136–37 Canada, 139, 168, 173 capital murder and punishment. See death sentence case, social geometry of the, 23, 34, 39, 92, 111, 151, 154, 167, 186, 198, 215n12; definition of, 21; civil vs. criminal law, 80; core, 61, 62, 102, 170, 191, 197; elements of, 27, 32; and parties’ conduct, 32–33; and proof, 194–96; third-party, 62, 187, 191, 197 Cavallaro, James, 10, 72, 74 centralization. See under state, the centrifugal cases/homicide/law/partisanship /settlement. See under homicide , direction of; law centripetal cases/homicide/law/partisanship /settlement. See under homicide , direction of; law Cheh, Mary H., 70 Chevigny, Paul, 71, 72–73, 74, 172 Cheyenne, 6, 153 Chicago, 124–25 children. See young people China: communist, 77, 79; imperial, 10, 43, 76–77, 128, 167, 205n2 Chinese americans, 135, 145...