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Law

2001

Selected Works

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Mediation In Black And White: Unequal Distribution Of Empowerment By Police, Christopher C. Cooper Sep 2001

Mediation In Black And White: Unequal Distribution Of Empowerment By Police, Christopher C. Cooper

Christopher C. Cooper Dr.

Mediation in Black & White: Unequal Distribution of Empowerment by Police. On calls-for-service involving an interpersonal disputes, patrol Police officers either arbitrate the matter (e.g., authoritarian directives or arrest) or empower disputing parties to reach a collective resolutiuon; however whether the latter is availabe to disputing parties depends on their race.


Wilde On Trial: Psychic Injury, Exhibitionism And The Law, Kirby Farrell Prof Dec 2000

Wilde On Trial: Psychic Injury, Exhibitionism And The Law, Kirby Farrell Prof

kirby farrell

A reassessment of Oscar Wilde's conviction for sexual offenses. Wilde's trial responded to polarization in fantasies of respectability in late Victorian culture, with the fear of social death underlying anxieties about homosexuality.