{"product_id":"no-duty-to-retreat","title":"No Duty to Retreat","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo Duty to Retreat takes as its starting-point the increased popularity in American society of the old English common-law concept that a person under physical attack has the right to stand his ground, defend himself, and even kill his assailant in self-defence in certain circumstances.  This doctrine came to public awareness recently when Berhard Goetz took the law into his own hands when assaulted by four youths in a New York City subway train.  There is a\n\u003cbr\u003echapter on the American as gunfighter, another on a famous vigilante case in California in the 1870s, when farmers retaliated against the Southern Pacific Railroad trying to move them off their lands , and a\n\u003cbr\u003elong chapter discussing `crime, law, and society in America since 1930', in which Brown shows that the crime surge since the 1950s has occurred with the emergence of the Post-Industrial Society, which has left many people alienated and looking for quick solutions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156634693870,"sku":"9780195045109","price":108.21,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780195045109.jpg?v=1706236600","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/no-duty-to-retreat","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}