Multicultural jurisprudence :  comparative perspectives on the cultural defense / 
edited by Marie-Claire Foblets and Alison Dundes Renteln 
 - Oxford :  Hart Publishing,  2009 
 - xiv, 378 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Oti international series in law and society .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-366) and index 
<br/><br/>Culture defence in English common law : the potential for development / Gordon R. Woodman -- Culture, crime, and culpability : perspectives on the defence of provocation / Kumaralingam Amirthalingam -- Use and abuse of the cultural defense / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Cultural defence in Spain / Barbara Truffin and Cesar Arjona -- Visions of a multicultural criminal law : an Australian perspective / Simon Bronitt -- The paradox of cultural differences in Dutch criminal law / Mirjam Siesling and Jeroen Ten Voorde -- The cultural defence in criminal law : South African perspectives / Pieter A. Carstens -- Criminalising Romani culture through law / Joke Kusters -- Honor killings and the cultural defense in Germany / Sylvia Maier -- A critique of'loss of face' arguments in cultural defense cases : a comparative study / Cher Weixia Chen -- The paradox of the cultural defence : gender and cultural othering in Canada / Maneesha Deckha -- Dealing with the ethnic other in criminal law practice : a case study from the Netherlands / Brenda Carina Oude Breuil -- Cultural defence and societal dynamics / Erik Claes and Jogchum Vrielink -- Anthropologist as expert witness : the case of a murder in Maine / John L. Caughey 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781841138954 (cloth)  RM263.25 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Actions and defenses--Sociological aspects<br/>Cultural defense (Law)<br/>Law and globalization<br/>Sociological jurisprudence<br/>Multiculturalism--Law and legislation<br/>Cultural pluralism<br/>Defense (Criminal procedure)--Sociological aspects<br/>Defense (Civil procedure)--Sociological aspects