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Full-Text Articles in Criminal Law
Prescribing Opioids Without Fear Of Prosecution, Adam M. Gershowitz
Prescribing Opioids Without Fear Of Prosecution, Adam M. Gershowitz
Popular Media
No abstract provided.
Professor Jeffrey Bellin: Reflections On The Fall 2020 Semester, Jeffrey Bellin
Professor Jeffrey Bellin: Reflections On The Fall 2020 Semester, Jeffrey Bellin
Law School Personal Reflections on COVID-19
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Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care, Wendy A. Bach
Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care, Wendy A. Bach
William & Mary Law Review
In 2013, state legislators sitting at the heart of America’s opiate epidemic created the crime of fetal assault. Although they offered a fairly standard series of criminologic rationales to justify the legislation, they also posited that the creation of this crime was a precondition to secure treatment (or care) resources for women addicted to opiates. This extraordinary supposition—that criminalizing conduct creates a road to care—is an outgrowth of three interlinked socio-legal trends: the building of the carceral state, the criminalization of poverty, and the rapid growth, since the late 1980s, of a new generation of problem-solving courts. Framed in this …
Coercing Pregnancy, A. Rachel Camp
Coercing Pregnancy, A. Rachel Camp
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Intimate partners coerce thousands of women in the United States into pregnancy each year through manipulation, threats of violence, or acts that deliberately interfere with the use of, or access to, contraception or abortion. Although many of these pregnancies occur within the context of otherwise abusive relationships, for others, pregnancy serves as a trigger for intimate partner violence. Beyond violence preceding or resulting from pregnancy, women who experience coerced pregnancies often suffer other physical, financial and emotional harms. Despite its correlation to domestic violence, reproductive coercion fits imperfectly, if at all, within our existing laws designed to combat domestic violence …
Increasing Victimization Through Fetal Abuse Redefinition, Margaret Kelly
Increasing Victimization Through Fetal Abuse Redefinition, Margaret Kelly
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
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