A Feminist Critique of Police Stops

A Feminist Critique of Police Stops

by Josephine Ross
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 30/11/2020

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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.

ISBN:
9781108618731
9781108618731
Category:
Law & society
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
30-11-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Josephine Ross

Josephine Ross is a literary and royal historian, the acknowledged expert on Cecil Beaton's career with Vogue and an authority on the life and works of Jane Austen, the subject of her most recent book Jane Austen and her World (2017). Her previous books include The Monarchs of Britain (1982); Beaton in Vogue (1986); Royalty in Vogue (1989) and Society in Vogue: The International Set Between the Wars (1992).

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