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- Title
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE LETHAL KIND: THE USE OF DEADLY FORCE IN SELF-DEFENSE.
- Authors
STELL, LANCE K.
- Abstract
The article considers the law on self defense. It presents a brief background on the legal history of on the use of deadly force for self defense to show the movement the position of treating all killings by private individuals as crimes of some sort toward the position of the right to kill in self defense. The author critiques the study of Professor Daniel D. Polsby which propounded the principle of utilitarianism in defining a theory to rationalize an all-encompassing conditional permission to kill in self defense to a categorical ban against the use of lethal force.
- Subjects
SELF-defense (Law); CRIME; POLSBY, Daniel D.; UTILITARIANISM; VIOLENCE (Law); CRIMINAL law
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1986, Vol 49, Issue 1, p113
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1191612