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Legal Studies

Selected Works

2009

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Full-Text Articles in Criminology

Victory In Rhode Island, Donna M. Hughes Dr., Michael Horowitz Oct 2009

Victory In Rhode Island, Donna M. Hughes Dr., Michael Horowitz

Donna M. Hughes

In stunning culmination of a David-Goliath struggle that, at least until lately, few believed the David side had the slightest chance of winning, the Rhode Island legislature enacted three major anti-trafficking bills last night that the Governor will soon sign into law. 

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Speak Your Voice On Prostitution Bill, Donna L. Landry, Donna M. Hughes Dr. Aug 2009

Speak Your Voice On Prostitution Bill, Donna L. Landry, Donna M. Hughes Dr.

Donna M. Hughes

Now is the time to speak your voice and urge your Senator to pass the House bill H5044A. Now is the time to close the loophole of indoor prostitution in Rhode Island. Negotiations are ongoing, so please write letters to your senator and circulate petitions now. 

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Tattoos Of Girls Under Pimp Control & Pimp Rules For The Control Of Victims, Donna M. Hughes Dr. Aug 2009

Tattoos Of Girls Under Pimp Control & Pimp Rules For The Control Of Victims, Donna M. Hughes Dr.

Donna M. Hughes

I have been collecting evidence of pimps’ practice of tattooing victims for several years. Tattooing, and sometimes branding or scarification, are marks of ownership. It is one of the ways that pimps maintain physical and psychological control over emotionally vulnerable girls. The girls and young women are frequently tattooed with the initials or street names of pimps. Marks also include gang symbols and $ signs or other symbols for the money the girls earn for the pimp. 

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Rhode Island Left Out Of Fbi Initiative, Donna M. Hughes Dr. Aug 2009

Rhode Island Left Out Of Fbi Initiative, Donna M. Hughes Dr.

Donna M. Hughes

Rhode Island has been excluded from federal law enforcement investigations of sex trafficking of children because there is no law against prostitution.

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Prosecuting Domestic Violence: A Philosophical Analysis, Michelle Dempsey Dec 2008

Prosecuting Domestic Violence: A Philosophical Analysis, Michelle Dempsey

Michelle Madden Dempsey

The main question which motivates the inquiry undertaken in this book is: what should public prosecutors do when victims withdraw support for domestic violence prosecutions? The answer defended herein can be summarized as follows: within the realm of justified (permissible) action, prosecutors should respond effectively; which is to say that, ceteris paribus, domestic-violence prosecutors should respond as feminists. This claim is intended as a provocative formulation of the proposition that domestic violence prosecutors should act for reasons generated by the value of reconstituting their states (and communities) as less patriarchal. This book defends that claim in two steps: first, it …

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The First Dime: A Decade Of Convict Criminology, Richard S. Jones, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Stephen C. Richards, Daniel S. Murphy Dec 2008

The First Dime: A Decade Of Convict Criminology, Richard S. Jones, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Stephen C. Richards, Daniel S. Murphy

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

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That Was Then, This Is Now, What About Tomorrow? Future Directions In State Crime Research, Dawn L. Rothe Ph.D., Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Christopher W. Mullins`, David Friedrichs, Raymond Michalowski, Gregg Barak Dec 2008

That Was Then, This Is Now, What About Tomorrow? Future Directions In State Crime Research, Dawn L. Rothe Ph.D., Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Christopher W. Mullins`, David Friedrichs, Raymond Michalowski, Gregg Barak

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

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Introduction To Special Issue On State Crime, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Dawn L. Rothe Dec 2008

Introduction To Special Issue On State Crime, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Dawn L. Rothe

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

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