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1993

Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance

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Unspeakable Suspicions: Challenging The Racist Consensual Encounter, Peter Schoenburg, Risa Evans Nov 1993

Unspeakable Suspicions: Challenging The Racist Consensual Encounter, Peter Schoenburg, Risa Evans

Law Faculty Scholarship

[Excerpt] "In recent years, law enforcement officials have honed a new technique for fighting the "War on Drugs:" the suspicionless police sweep of stations and vehicles involved in interstate mass transportation. Single officers or groups of officers approach unfortunate individuals in busses, trains, stations and airline terminals. A targeted traveller is requested to show identification and tickets, explain the purpose of his or her travels, and finally, at times, to consent to a luggage search. As long as "a reasonable person would understand that he or she could refuse to cooperate," the encounter between the law-enforcement official and the traveller …

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Waco Tragedy Product Of Groupthink, Aubrey Immelman May 1993

Waco Tragedy Product Of Groupthink, Aubrey Immelman

Psychology Faculty Publications

This opinion column employs the eight symptoms of groupthink specified by Irving Janis to evaluate whether the tragic end to the 1993 FBI siege of David Koresh’s Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas — which culminated in deaths of 76 civilians — could have been the product of groupthink.

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Rape, Violence, And Women's Autonomy, Dorothy E. Roberts Jan 1993

Rape, Violence, And Women's Autonomy, Dorothy E. Roberts

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No abstract provided.

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Motherhood And Crime, Dorothy E. Roberts Jan 1993

Motherhood And Crime, Dorothy E. Roberts

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Codifying Criminal Law: Do Modern Codes Have It Right?, Paul H. Robinson Jan 1993

Codifying Criminal Law: Do Modern Codes Have It Right?, Paul H. Robinson

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Crime, Race And Reproduction, Dorothy E. Roberts Jan 1993

Crime, Race And Reproduction, Dorothy E. Roberts

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Foreword: The Criminal-Civil Distinction And Dangerous Blameless Offenders, Paul H. Robinson Jan 1993

Foreword: The Criminal-Civil Distinction And Dangerous Blameless Offenders, Paul H. Robinson

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