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14 Charleston L. Rev. 341 (2020)
When Culture and Law Collide: The Role of Cultural Differences in Court Decisions

handle is hein.journals/charlwrev14 and id is 351 raw text is: WHEN CULTURE AND LAW COLLIDE: THE ROLE OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN COURT DECISIONS Monica K. Miller, Waleed A. Jami, and Lauren A. Anderson', ABSTRACT ............................... ...... 342 INTRODUCTION ........................... ...... 342 CONCEPTS RELATED TO CULTURE AND LAW...................344 Definition of Culture .............................. 345 Equality..................................345 Multiculturalism...........................348 Acculturation. ............................. 350 Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Procedural Justice.........352 Culturally-shaped behavior ........................ 354 COURT STANDARDS AND THE CULTURAL DEFENSE ...... 357 Court Standards ..................................... 358 Nuances of the Cultural Defense ........... ....... 359 Current Cultural Defense Court Cases ........ ........ 362 S.D. v. M.J.R ........................ .....362 United States v. Nagarwala et al .......... .....363 * Department of Criminal Justice and Interdisciplinary Social Psychology PhD Program, University of Nevada, Reno. Interdisciplinary Social Psychology PhD Program, University of Nevada, Reno. * Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Reno. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Monica K. Miller, J.D., PhD., Department of Criminal Justice and Interdisciplinary Social Psychology PhD Program. Mailstop 214, University of Nevada, Reno at mkmiller@unr.edu. We would like to thank Tatyana Kaplan for supporting our work on this paper. The authors have no conflict of interest. 341