Nielsen License to Harass

Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2629-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Reihe: The Cultural Lives of Law

Laura Beth Nielsen is currently Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and will be Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University beginning in the fall of 2006. She is the editor, with Robert L. Nelson, of Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and Realities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nielsen, Laura Beth

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Antidiskriminierung (AGG), Gleichbehandlung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables ix

Acknowledgments xi

CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1

CHAPTER TWO Law and Power in Sidewalk Encounters: Conflicting Perspectives on Offensive Public Speech 17

CHAPTER THREE Experiencing Offensive Public Speech: The Detailed Calculus for Being in Public 39

CHAPTER FOUR Offensive Public Speech as a Personal Problem, Social Problem, and Subject for Legal Intervention 68

CHAPTER FIVE Ordinary Citizens' Views of the Legal Regulation of Street Speech 98

CHAPTER SIX Power in Public: Reactions, Responses, and Resistance to Offensive Public Speech 133

CHAPTER SEVEN License to Harass 167

APPENDIX A Research Design 181

APPENDIX B Questionnaire 198

Notes 207

Cases Cited 211

References 213

Index 219

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Beth Nielsen is currently Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and will be Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University beginning in the fall of 2006. She is the editor, with Robert L. Nelson, of Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and Realities.