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The Under-Enforcement Of Crimes Against Black Women, Lisa Avalos
The Under-Enforcement Of Crimes Against Black Women, Lisa Avalos
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It is well known that over-policing has a severe adverse impact on communities of color. What is less well known is that over-policing is accompanied by a corollary—a pervasive and systemic under-policing of violence against women of color. The refusal to see women of color as victims of crime who are worthy recipients of justice, and to minimize the severity of violence committed against them, are habits that are deeply embedded in the American system of [in]justice. From an 1855 Supreme Court decision refusing to recognize a female slave’s right to sexual autonomy to a prosecutor’s 2021 decision to prosecute …
Helpless By Law: Enduring Lessons From A Century-Old Tragedy, Raymond T. Diamond, Robert J. Cottrol
Helpless By Law: Enduring Lessons From A Century-Old Tragedy, Raymond T. Diamond, Robert J. Cottrol
Journal Articles
This essay examines questions of violence and self-defense in African American history. It does so by contrasting historical patterns of racist anti-Black violence prevalent in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, as exemplified by the destruction of the Greenwood community in Tulsa Oklahoma in 1921, with the current phenomenon of Black-on-Black violence in modern inner-city communities. Although circumstances have changed greatly in the century since the destruction of Greenwood, two phenomena persist: 1. the failure of authorities to protect Black communities and their residents, and 2. efforts by authorities to use the law or law enforcement to disarm members of …
Family Law And Female Empowerment, Andrea B. Carroll
Family Law And Female Empowerment, Andrea B. Carroll
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Prevention And The Pillars Of A Dynamic Theory Of Civil Liability: A Comparative Study On Preventive Remedies, Alexandru-Daniel On
Prevention And The Pillars Of A Dynamic Theory Of Civil Liability: A Comparative Study On Preventive Remedies, Alexandru-Daniel On
Research Papers
The purpose of this study is to draw the coordinates and identify the main vectors for the development of a comprehensive theory of prevention in the law of torts.
In Service To America: Naturalization Of Undocumented Alien Veterans, Darlene Goring
In Service To America: Naturalization Of Undocumented Alien Veterans, Darlene Goring
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