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Criminal Justice And The Mattering Of Lives, Deborah Tuerkheimer Apr 2018

Criminal Justice And The Mattering Of Lives, Deborah Tuerkheimer

Michigan Law Review

A review of James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.


Legal Images Of Battered Women: Redefining The Issue Of Separation, Martha R. Mahoney Oct 1991

Legal Images Of Battered Women: Redefining The Issue Of Separation, Martha R. Mahoney

Michigan Law Review

Part I of this article discusses violence in the ordinary lives of women, describing individual and societal denial that pretends domestic violence is rare when statistics show it is common, and describing the ways in which motherhood shapes women's experience of violence and choices in response to violence. Part II examines definitions of battering and evaluates their effectiveness at disguising or revealing the struggle for control at the heart of the battering process. I then describe in Part III the pressures that self-defense and custody cases place on legal and cultural images of battered women and contrast the development of …


Reexamining The Law Of Rape, Janet E. Findlater May 1988

Reexamining The Law Of Rape, Janet E. Findlater

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A Review Real Rape by Susan Estrich


In The Jungle Of Cities, Anthony Chase Apr 1986

In The Jungle Of Cities, Anthony Chase

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A Review of American Violence and Public Policy: An Update of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence by Lynn A. Curtis and The Miami Riot of 1980: Crossing the Bounds by Bruce Porter and Marvin Dunn


Changed Society, Changing Law, Hence Unstable Prisons, Daniel Glaser Mar 1979

Changed Society, Changing Law, Hence Unstable Prisons, Daniel Glaser

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A Review of Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society by James B. Jacobs