† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm Reconsidering Hate: A Forum on the “Hate” Frame in…
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Senate Candidate Provokes Ire with ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment In an effort to explain his stance on abortion, Representative Todd Akin, the Republican Senate nominee from Missouri, provoked ire across the political spectrum on Sunday by saying that in instances of what he called “legitimate rape,” women’s bodies somehow blocked an…
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New York Times: Shari Archibald’s black handbag sat at her feet on the sidewalk in front of her Bronx home on a recent summer night. The two male officers crouched over her leather bag and rooted around inside, elbow-deep. One officer fished out a tampon and then a sanitary napkin,…
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From NYLJ: Allegations that women lawyers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are paid thousands of dollars less each year than men doing substantially equal work have been thrown out by a Manhattan federal judge. Southern District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald (See Profile) dismissed a lawsuit…
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The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women’s Rights is the title of a book that will be published this week to coincide with International Women’s Day. The book includes over 30 essays by different authors, among them Somali gynaecologist Hawa Abdi and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Shirin…
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From ThinkProgress: Rush Limbaugh’s latest misogynistic tirade against Georgetown University Law Student Sandra Fluke may be the last straw for many of the shock jock’s corporate sponsors. Thousands of angry customers have been inundating dozens of Limbaugh’s corporate sponsors, demanding that they cut ties with the program. So far, Sleep…
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From Portland Press Herald: Obama’s revised rule appears to have won over Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine. Both had called for changes to the original rule despite their support in the past for a bill with a similar objective. “It appears that changes have been made…
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