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Unspeakable Suspicions: Challenging The Racist Consensual Encounter, Peter Schoenburg, Risa Evans Nov 1993

Unspeakable Suspicions: Challenging The Racist Consensual Encounter, Peter Schoenburg, Risa Evans

Law Faculty Scholarship

[Excerpt] "In recent years, law enforcement officials have honed a new technique for fighting the "War on Drugs:" the suspicionless police sweep of stations and vehicles involved in interstate mass transportation. Single officers or groups of officers approach unfortunate individuals in busses, trains, stations and airline terminals. A targeted traveller is requested to show identification and tickets, explain the purpose of his or her travels, and finally, at times, to consent to a luggage search. As long as "a reasonable person would understand that he or she could refuse to cooperate," the encounter between the law-enforcement official and the traveller …


Certificate: In Appreciation For 25 Years Of Service, Florida Community College At Jacksonville, Florida Community College At Jacksonville Aug 1993

Certificate: In Appreciation For 25 Years Of Service, Florida Community College At Jacksonville, Florida Community College At Jacksonville

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of Race, Law, And American History, 1700-1990, Davison M. Douglas Jan 1993

Book Review Of Race, Law, And American History, 1700-1990, Davison M. Douglas

Faculty Publications

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Racism And Patriarchy In The Meaning Of Motherhood, Dorothy E. Roberts Jan 1993

Racism And Patriarchy In The Meaning Of Motherhood, Dorothy E. Roberts

All Faculty Scholarship

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Rust V. Sullivan And The Control Of Knowledge, Dorothy E. Roberts Jan 1993

Rust V. Sullivan And The Control Of Knowledge, Dorothy E. Roberts

All Faculty Scholarship

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Of Diagnoses And Discrimination: Discriminatory Nontreatment Of Infants With Hiv Infection, Mary Crossley Jan 1993

Of Diagnoses And Discrimination: Discriminatory Nontreatment Of Infants With Hiv Infection, Mary Crossley

Articles

Evidence of physician attitudes favoring the withholding of needed medical treatment from infants infected with HIV compels a reassessment of the applicability and adequacy of existing law in dealing with selective nontreatment. Although we can hope to have learned some lessons from the Baby Doe controversy of the mid-1980s, whether the legislation emerging from that controversy, the Child Abuse Amendments of 1984, has ever adequately dealt with the problem of nontreatment remains far from clear. Today, the medical and social characteristics of most infants infected with HIV introduce new variables into our assessment of that legislation. At stake are the …