American legal scholars have debated for some time the need for a cultural defense in criminal proceedings where minority cultural information seems perti nent

Readings in Cultural Diversity and Criminal Justice presents students with a collection of scholarly, interdisciplinary articles and invites them to critically

Resource added for the Criminal Justice - Law Enforcement 105046 and Professional Studies 105045 programs.

The idea of a cultural defense in criminal law is often ridiculed as "multiculturalism run amok ". To allow someone charged with a crime to say "this is my cult

What place, if any, ought cultural considerations have when we blame and punish in the criminal law? Bringing together political and legal theorists Criminal La