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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 …


Motherhood And Crime, Dorothy E. Roberts Jan 1993

Motherhood And Crime, Dorothy E. Roberts

All Faculty Scholarship

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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

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.