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With An Evil Eye And An Unequal Hand: Pretextual Stops And Doctrinal Remedies To Racial Profiling, Wesley Oliver
With An Evil Eye And An Unequal Hand: Pretextual Stops And Doctrinal Remedies To Racial Profiling, Wesley Oliver
Wesley M Oliver
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Gang Loitering And Race, Lawrence Rosenthal
Gang Loitering And Race, Lawrence Rosenthal
Lawrence Rosenthal
The decision of the United States Supreme Court in City of Chicago v. Morales, which invalidating Chicago's gang-loitering ordinance, provides a road map for future public order laws that can address inner-city crime. This article makes the argument for public order laws as an anti-gang initiative that stops short of an approach dependent on massive incarceration, and defends such laws against an attack on grounds of racial fairness. Relying on the work of leading urban sociologists, the article argues that gang crime powerfully attracts inner city (and disproportionately minority) youth, and that any strategy for crime reduction in the inner …