アメリカにおける犯罪、法と道徳 Sin No More : From Abortion to Stem Cells, Understanding Crime, Law, and Morality in America

Dombrink, John/ Hillyard, Daniel

New York University Press（2007/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780814719893
• DDC分類 170.973

Full Description

Read the Authors' Op-Ed on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sin No More offers a vivid examination of some of the most morally and politically disputed issues of our time: abortion, gay rights, assisted suicide, stem cell research, and legalized gambling. These are moral values issues, all of which are hotly, sometimes violently, contested in America. The authors cover these issues in depth, looking at the nature of efforts to initiate reforms, to define constituencies, to mobilize resources, to frame debates, and to shape public opinion—all in an effort to achieve social change, create, or re-write legislation. Of the issues under scrutiny only legalized gambling has managed to achieve widespread acceptance despite moral qualms from some.
Sin No More seeks to show what these laws and attitudes tell us about Americans' approach to law and morality, and about our changing conceptions of sin, crime and illegality. Running through each chapter is a central tension: that American attitudes and laws toward these victimless crimes are going through a process of normalization. Despite conservative rhetoric the authors argue that the tide is turning on each of these issues, with all moving toward acceptance, or decriminalization, in society. Each issue is at a different point in terms of this acceptance, and each has traveled different roads to achieve their current status.

Contents

Contents Acknowledgmentsix 1Changing Moralities: Shifts in American Attitudes and Law in the "Moral Values" Debate 1 2Painless Prosperity: The Spread of Legal Gambling 31 3Abortion: Contestation and Ambivalence in the Long Era of Roe v. Wade 53 4Gay Rights: Beyond Tolerance and Privacy to Equality 93 5Assisted Suicide: The Road to New Rules of Dying 127 6Stem Cells: Framing Battles and the Race for a Cure 186 7Conclusion: To Form a More Purple Union? 225 Notes 257 References 269 Index 311 About the Authors 331