THE BROTHEL BOY; and Other Parables of the Law
New York Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, purple quarter cloth with white lettering on spine over green boards; archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with sketcch of a soldier pulling a Rickshaw; viii, [ix-x] + 338 pages. Very Fine / Fine. Item #7637
ISBN: 0195074432
Norval Morris (1923–2004) was an Australian-educated brilliant United States law professor, criminologist, and advocate for criminal justice and mental health reform, and a former Dean of the University of Chicago Law School.
In this engaging volume, one of America's great legal thinkers, Norval Morris,
addresses perplexing and controversial questions of justice as "parables of the law" via the fictive persona of Eric Blair (aka George Orwell).
These stories address highly charged issues: capital punishment, insanity or the "battered wife syndrome" as murder defenses, child custody, "parental neglect" due to religious conviction--to name a few. No case has an easy answer. In the title story, a retarded boy, whose understanding of sex comes from the brothel in which he works, accidentally murders a young girl while raping her, his only defense being "Please sir, I paid her."
SUPERIOR overall condition! Tight, bright, clean copy in comparable dust jacket (unclipped). No previous owner or remainder marks.
Price: $30.00