A Feminist Critique of Police Stops

AvJosephine Ross

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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A Feminist Critique of Police Stops examines the parallels between stop-and-frisk policing and sexual harassment. An expert whose writing, teaching and community outreach centers on the Constitution's limits on police power, Howard Law Professor Josephine Ross, argues that our constitutional rights are a mirage. In reality, we can't say no when police seek to question or search us. Building on feminist principles, Ross demonstrates why the Supreme Court got it wrong when it allowed police to stop, search, and sometimes strip-search people and call it consent. Using a wide range of sources - including her law students' experiences with police, news stories about Eric Garner, and Sandra Bland, social science and the work of James Baldwin - Ross sheds new light on policing. This book should be read by everyone interested in how Court-approved police stops sap everyone's constitutional rights and how this form of policing can be eliminated.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-12-17
Mått:230 x 150 x 20 mm
Vikt:370 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108710879

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Josephine Ross is a professor of law at Howard University School of Law, Washington DC. She was a public defender in Massachusetts for seven years, then served as an interim executive director of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders before beginning a teaching career at Boston College Law School. She has published numerous law review articles, first on marriage equality and then on topics involving criminal (in)justice. For two decades, she supervised law students in the criminal trial courts of Boston and Washington, DC.

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'Josephine Ross has blessed us with a highly readable and spot-on account of stop and frisk from the perspective of its survivors. A Feminist Critique of Police Stops is a provocative mash up in which #metoo meets #blacklivesmatter and makes the world a better place.' Paul Butler, Georgetown University Law Center, author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men

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Introduction; Part I. Bye, Bye Bill of Rights: 1. Waive your rights: that's how stops and frisks were meant to work; 2. The most dangerous right: walking away from an officer; 3. Consenting to searches: what we can learn from feminist critiques of sexual assault laws; 4. Punishing disrespect: no free speech allowed here; 5. Beyond Miranda's reach: how stop-and-frisk undermines the right to silence; Part II. The Fallout: 6. The frisk: 'injuries to manhood' and to womanhood; 7. Invisible scars: Terry's psychological toll; 8. High court camouflage: how the Supreme Court hides police aggression and racial animus.