Roger Shuy
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199926961
- eISBN:
- 9780199980505
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199926961.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This book analyzes the many ways in which language plays a crucial role in sexual misconduct cases. The book describes eleven court cases for which the author served as an expert witness, and ...
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This book analyzes the many ways in which language plays a crucial role in sexual misconduct cases. The book describes eleven court cases for which the author served as an expert witness, and explains the issues at stake in each case for both lawyers and linguists. The book's attention is on aspects of sexual misconduct that have not previously received the attention they deserve, such as: the language evidence of sexual misconduct in the workplace; cases of adult-to-child sexual misconduct with the family; and adult-adult sexual misconduct cases. The book describes the often-used linguistic analytical tools that are available to both the prosecution and the defense, and argues that there is a particular sequence in which these tools should be used.Less
This book analyzes the many ways in which language plays a crucial role in sexual misconduct cases. The book describes eleven court cases for which the author served as an expert witness, and explains the issues at stake in each case for both lawyers and linguists. The book's attention is on aspects of sexual misconduct that have not previously received the attention they deserve, such as: the language evidence of sexual misconduct in the workplace; cases of adult-to-child sexual misconduct with the family; and adult-adult sexual misconduct cases. The book describes the often-used linguistic analytical tools that are available to both the prosecution and the defense, and argues that there is a particular sequence in which these tools should be used.
Roger W. Shuy
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199926961
- eISBN:
- 9780199980505
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199926961.003.0009
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter shows how sexual misconduct cases are dealt with in US law and how offenders can be prosecuted. It first defines the term “sexual misconduct” and then characterizes the person who ...
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This chapter shows how sexual misconduct cases are dealt with in US law and how offenders can be prosecuted. It first defines the term “sexual misconduct” and then characterizes the person who commits sexual misconduct. It then notes the parts of the U.S. federal statutes, state statutes such as the Texas Penal Code, and the Model Penal Code that are used to deal with issues of consent, knowledge, mutual agreement, force, intent, and ages of the participants. This chapter also discusses the most serious offense of sexual misconduct (rape), the difference between sexual harassment and sexual misconduct, physical sexual misconduct (not including rape), and the ways sexual misconduct can be proven.Less
This chapter shows how sexual misconduct cases are dealt with in US law and how offenders can be prosecuted. It first defines the term “sexual misconduct” and then characterizes the person who commits sexual misconduct. It then notes the parts of the U.S. federal statutes, state statutes such as the Texas Penal Code, and the Model Penal Code that are used to deal with issues of consent, knowledge, mutual agreement, force, intent, and ages of the participants. This chapter also discusses the most serious offense of sexual misconduct (rape), the difference between sexual harassment and sexual misconduct, physical sexual misconduct (not including rape), and the ways sexual misconduct can be proven.
Karin E. Gedge
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195130201
- eISBN:
- 9780199835157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195130200.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
At the same time that ministerial misconduct exposed the flaws in separate spheres ideology, the accounts of two dozen clergymen’s trials disclose the ways they worked to repair and reinforce the ...
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At the same time that ministerial misconduct exposed the flaws in separate spheres ideology, the accounts of two dozen clergymen’s trials disclose the ways they worked to repair and reinforce the damaged boundaries. Caught in a disgraceful liaison that threatened a career, ministers usually escaped conviction or severe punishment. In the course of these trials, clergy were rescued from the dangerous domestic sphere and “masculinized,” portrayed as valiant combatants in monumental political or theological battles that secured their positions in the public sphere and acknowledged their value to the church and to society. Only two of these men were Catholic priests, yet most enjoyed a cultural immunity similar to the medieval privilege of “benefit of clergy.” Women, however, were “feminized,” depicted as vulnerable victims in need of the protection of fathers and husbands within the domestic sphere and suffering public ignominy if they strayed beyond it. In short, clergy learned to stay out of the domestic sphere and women to stay in it.Less
At the same time that ministerial misconduct exposed the flaws in separate spheres ideology, the accounts of two dozen clergymen’s trials disclose the ways they worked to repair and reinforce the damaged boundaries. Caught in a disgraceful liaison that threatened a career, ministers usually escaped conviction or severe punishment. In the course of these trials, clergy were rescued from the dangerous domestic sphere and “masculinized,” portrayed as valiant combatants in monumental political or theological battles that secured their positions in the public sphere and acknowledged their value to the church and to society. Only two of these men were Catholic priests, yet most enjoyed a cultural immunity similar to the medieval privilege of “benefit of clergy.” Women, however, were “feminized,” depicted as vulnerable victims in need of the protection of fathers and husbands within the domestic sphere and suffering public ignominy if they strayed beyond it. In short, clergy learned to stay out of the domestic sphere and women to stay in it.
Joseph J. Fischel
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780520295407
- eISBN:
- 9780520968172
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520295407.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter surveys current activist and scholarly debates around consent to argue that the conceptual terrain is the wrong one. We should jettison or at least downgrade consent for our sexual ...
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This chapter surveys current activist and scholarly debates around consent to argue that the conceptual terrain is the wrong one. We should jettison or at least downgrade consent for our sexual justice politics.Less
This chapter surveys current activist and scholarly debates around consent to argue that the conceptual terrain is the wrong one. We should jettison or at least downgrade consent for our sexual justice politics.
Roger W. Shuy
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199926961
- eISBN:
- 9780199980505
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199926961.003.0008
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This introductory chapter is concerned with sexual misconduct cases, particularly those involving children. It reviews how sexual misconduct cases were dealt with by previous authors and books, and ...
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This introductory chapter is concerned with sexual misconduct cases, particularly those involving children. It reviews how sexual misconduct cases were dealt with by previous authors and books, and emphasizes that the present work highlights several aspects that have been previously ignored. These include the language evidence of sexual misconduct that occurs in the workplace and sexual misconduct cases that occur between two adults. The chapter then explains how linguistics can help the analysis of sexual misconduct cases. It ends with a summary of the eleven cases presented in this book, where the author also acted as an expert witness.Less
This introductory chapter is concerned with sexual misconduct cases, particularly those involving children. It reviews how sexual misconduct cases were dealt with by previous authors and books, and emphasizes that the present work highlights several aspects that have been previously ignored. These include the language evidence of sexual misconduct that occurs in the workplace and sexual misconduct cases that occur between two adults. The chapter then explains how linguistics can help the analysis of sexual misconduct cases. It ends with a summary of the eleven cases presented in this book, where the author also acted as an expert witness.
Karin E. Gedge
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195130201
- eISBN:
- 9780199835157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195130200.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
The gender ideology of separate spheres that emerged in nineteenth-century America prescribed public roles for men and private roles for women while, at the same time, asking clergy and women to ...
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The gender ideology of separate spheres that emerged in nineteenth-century America prescribed public roles for men and private roles for women while, at the same time, asking clergy and women to serve together as moral guardians of the republic. The cultural no-man’s land they occupied proved to be dangerous territory. Four highly publicized trials reveal nineteenth-century Americans’ fascination and horror with clerical sexual misconduct and crimes against women: the 1832 murder trial of New England Methodist minister Ephraim Avery; the 1844 presentment for moral “impurities” of the Episcopal Bishop of New York, Benjamin Onderdonk; the 1857 criminal adultery trial of Boston pastor Isaac Kalloch; and the 1875 church hearing and civil trial for adultery of the renowned preacher, Henry Ward Beecher. The verbal and graphic images generated in each of these trials tapped deep cultural anxieties, showing clergy and women regularly transgressing the too permeable boundaries of separate spheres and calling into question their roles as moral guardians and the utility of gender ideals in regulating social and sexual behavior.Less
The gender ideology of separate spheres that emerged in nineteenth-century America prescribed public roles for men and private roles for women while, at the same time, asking clergy and women to serve together as moral guardians of the republic. The cultural no-man’s land they occupied proved to be dangerous territory. Four highly publicized trials reveal nineteenth-century Americans’ fascination and horror with clerical sexual misconduct and crimes against women: the 1832 murder trial of New England Methodist minister Ephraim Avery; the 1844 presentment for moral “impurities” of the Episcopal Bishop of New York, Benjamin Onderdonk; the 1857 criminal adultery trial of Boston pastor Isaac Kalloch; and the 1875 church hearing and civil trial for adultery of the renowned preacher, Henry Ward Beecher. The verbal and graphic images generated in each of these trials tapped deep cultural anxieties, showing clergy and women regularly transgressing the too permeable boundaries of separate spheres and calling into question their roles as moral guardians and the utility of gender ideals in regulating social and sexual behavior.
Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691169880
- eISBN:
- 9780691184463
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691169880.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter addresses the possibility that the pericope adulterae was deleted rather than interpolated. Contemporary scholars have often suggested that the unusual history of the pericope adulterae ...
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This chapter addresses the possibility that the pericope adulterae was deleted rather than interpolated. Contemporary scholars have often suggested that the unusual history of the pericope adulterae can best be explained by its seemingly radical content. In a world where adultery on the part of women was heavily censured, this story may have pushed the limits of Christian mercy too far, especially since the earliest Christians were often accused of sexual misconduct. In addition, the woman showed no apparent signs of repentance. Nevertheless, outright deletion or intentional suppression are both highly improbable: scribes and scholars were trained never to delete, even when they doubted the authenticity of a given passage, and the widespread affection for stories about adulterous women across the ancient world belies the thesis that this story was censored.Less
This chapter addresses the possibility that the pericope adulterae was deleted rather than interpolated. Contemporary scholars have often suggested that the unusual history of the pericope adulterae can best be explained by its seemingly radical content. In a world where adultery on the part of women was heavily censured, this story may have pushed the limits of Christian mercy too far, especially since the earliest Christians were often accused of sexual misconduct. In addition, the woman showed no apparent signs of repentance. Nevertheless, outright deletion or intentional suppression are both highly improbable: scribes and scholars were trained never to delete, even when they doubted the authenticity of a given passage, and the widespread affection for stories about adulterous women across the ancient world belies the thesis that this story was censored.
Roger W. Shuy
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195181661
- eISBN:
- 9780199788477
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181661.003.0010
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter describes an actual case that was anonymized at the request of counsel. Joseph Mussina was a physician who had previously performed an abortion for an immigrant client who kept calling ...
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This chapter describes an actual case that was anonymized at the request of counsel. Joseph Mussina was a physician who had previously performed an abortion for an immigrant client who kept calling his office about her physical and marital problems. In a bizarre series of calls to him during his busy office hours, she at first tried to get the doctor to script her about what she should tell her husband since she falsely believed the doctor wanted to marry her. Later, she tried to elicit an apology from him for having sexual relations with her during her previous visits. These taped conversations were the entire evidence used against the doctor. Linguistic analysis showed that he never admitted to having engaged in any inappropriate behavior. The speech act of apologizing is central to this analysis.Less
This chapter describes an actual case that was anonymized at the request of counsel. Joseph Mussina was a physician who had previously performed an abortion for an immigrant client who kept calling his office about her physical and marital problems. In a bizarre series of calls to him during his busy office hours, she at first tried to get the doctor to script her about what she should tell her husband since she falsely believed the doctor wanted to marry her. Later, she tried to elicit an apology from him for having sexual relations with her during her previous visits. These taped conversations were the entire evidence used against the doctor. Linguistic analysis showed that he never admitted to having engaged in any inappropriate behavior. The speech act of apologizing is central to this analysis.
Karin E. Gedge
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195130201
- eISBN:
- 9780199835157
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195130200.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
By examining a wide variety of public and private primary sources from northeastern, mid-Atlantic, and midwestern states, Gedge challenges an assumption prevalent in nineteenth-century culture as ...
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By examining a wide variety of public and private primary sources from northeastern, mid-Atlantic, and midwestern states, Gedge challenges an assumption prevalent in nineteenth-century culture as well as twentieth-century historiography: women and clergy formed a natural alliance, exercised a particular influence over each other, and enjoyed a close, even perilously intimate, relationship. Part I locates the perception of a dangerous pastoral relationship in the published accounts of European travelers and in pamphlets describing dozens of criminal, civil, and ecclesiastical trials of clergy accused of sexual misconduct. Part II identifies both benign and malignant representations of the relationship in the imagination—the diverse literary genres that featured women and clergy as central characters, reinforcing and subverting the perception of a peculiar attraction between the two. The dangerous liaison so ubiquitous in popular culture, however, actually worked to alienate clergy and women. In Part III, pastoral manuals and seminary lectures, as part of the “professionalization” of the Protestant clergy, articulated an ideal relationship that effectively distanced ministers from their female parishioners. In Part IV, Gedge argues that the experience of ordinary pastors and female parishioners, as revealed in journals, diaries, and correspondence, also tells a tale of estrangement. Clergy resisted “feminization,” recording frustration, disdain, and avoidance in their relationships with women while women reported neglect, disappointment, and disillusionment in their relationships with pastors. The paradigm of “feminization” that historians have applied to the nineteenth-century clergy and the Protestant church is a distorted representation of the pastoral relationship. The gender ideology of separate spheres imposed enormous restrictions upon and tensions within that relationship, anxieties that reverberated in the culture at large.Less
By examining a wide variety of public and private primary sources from northeastern, mid-Atlantic, and midwestern states, Gedge challenges an assumption prevalent in nineteenth-century culture as well as twentieth-century historiography: women and clergy formed a natural alliance, exercised a particular influence over each other, and enjoyed a close, even perilously intimate, relationship. Part I locates the perception of a dangerous pastoral relationship in the published accounts of European travelers and in pamphlets describing dozens of criminal, civil, and ecclesiastical trials of clergy accused of sexual misconduct. Part II identifies both benign and malignant representations of the relationship in the imagination—the diverse literary genres that featured women and clergy as central characters, reinforcing and subverting the perception of a peculiar attraction between the two. The dangerous liaison so ubiquitous in popular culture, however, actually worked to alienate clergy and women. In Part III, pastoral manuals and seminary lectures, as part of the “professionalization” of the Protestant clergy, articulated an ideal relationship that effectively distanced ministers from their female parishioners. In Part IV, Gedge argues that the experience of ordinary pastors and female parishioners, as revealed in journals, diaries, and correspondence, also tells a tale of estrangement. Clergy resisted “feminization,” recording frustration, disdain, and avoidance in their relationships with women while women reported neglect, disappointment, and disillusionment in their relationships with pastors. The paradigm of “feminization” that historians have applied to the nineteenth-century clergy and the Protestant church is a distorted representation of the pastoral relationship. The gender ideology of separate spheres imposed enormous restrictions upon and tensions within that relationship, anxieties that reverberated in the culture at large.
Roger W. Shuy
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199926961
- eISBN:
- 9780199980505
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199926961.003.0033
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter reviews the way linguistic tools have been used by the defense attorneys as they attempted to counter the sexual misconduct charges made to their clients. It emphasizes the need for ...
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This chapter reviews the way linguistic tools have been used by the defense attorneys as they attempted to counter the sexual misconduct charges made to their clients. It emphasizes the need for defense attorneys, prosecutors, and linguists to consider the larger language units before they focus on the smaller language units. This is mostly due to the fact that these larger language units—speech acts, schemas, agendas, and speech events, among others—can help give the actual meaning of the smaller units that at first glance appear to be conclusive proof.Less
This chapter reviews the way linguistic tools have been used by the defense attorneys as they attempted to counter the sexual misconduct charges made to their clients. It emphasizes the need for defense attorneys, prosecutors, and linguists to consider the larger language units before they focus on the smaller language units. This is mostly due to the fact that these larger language units—speech acts, schemas, agendas, and speech events, among others—can help give the actual meaning of the smaller units that at first glance appear to be conclusive proof.
Barbara Owen, James Wells, and Joycelyn Pollock
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520288713
- eISBN:
- 9780520963566
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520288713.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
Chapter 6 expands on the consequences of the obvious inequality between correctional worker and prisoner. Much of this inequality is routinely expressed in disrespectful and derogatory comments made ...
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Chapter 6 expands on the consequences of the obvious inequality between correctional worker and prisoner. Much of this inequality is routinely expressed in disrespectful and derogatory comments made by staff about women prisoners. Narrative and survey data is used to describe how staff sexual harassment, misconduct, and physical violence are relatively rare, but are a serious concern to most members of the women’s prison community. The problem of staff sexual misconduct is not one of magnitude. Rather, the fact that any number of staff employed to provide care and custody of women prisoners harm women through sexually-based actions should be troubling to all of us.Less
Chapter 6 expands on the consequences of the obvious inequality between correctional worker and prisoner. Much of this inequality is routinely expressed in disrespectful and derogatory comments made by staff about women prisoners. Narrative and survey data is used to describe how staff sexual harassment, misconduct, and physical violence are relatively rare, but are a serious concern to most members of the women’s prison community. The problem of staff sexual misconduct is not one of magnitude. Rather, the fact that any number of staff employed to provide care and custody of women prisoners harm women through sexually-based actions should be troubling to all of us.
Roger W. Shuy
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195181661
- eISBN:
- 9780199788477
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181661.003.0013
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Between 1994 and 2000, a Wenatchee Washington police officer with a warped imagination managed to enmesh 43 adults and 60 children in one of the most bizarre sexual abuse and sex orgy cases in ...
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Between 1994 and 2000, a Wenatchee Washington police officer with a warped imagination managed to enmesh 43 adults and 60 children in one of the most bizarre sexual abuse and sex orgy cases in history. He made no tape recording of his interviews with witnesses and he claimed to have destroyed any notes he may have made. His entire evidence of misconduct was the confession statements that he wrote down and had them sign. Based on the alleged verbatim confessions, along with trial transcripts of the targets’ testimony, it was possible to show that he used the conversational strategies of interruption, ambiguity, camouflaging, ignoring “no” responses, scripting, withholding important information, and inaccurately restating what they said.Less
Between 1994 and 2000, a Wenatchee Washington police officer with a warped imagination managed to enmesh 43 adults and 60 children in one of the most bizarre sexual abuse and sex orgy cases in history. He made no tape recording of his interviews with witnesses and he claimed to have destroyed any notes he may have made. His entire evidence of misconduct was the confession statements that he wrote down and had them sign. Based on the alleged verbatim confessions, along with trial transcripts of the targets’ testimony, it was possible to show that he used the conversational strategies of interruption, ambiguity, camouflaging, ignoring “no” responses, scripting, withholding important information, and inaccurately restating what they said.
Roger W. Shuy
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199926961
- eISBN:
- 9780199980505
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199926961.003.0025
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter discusses the case of Stephen Ray, which serves as an example of the complicated twists and turns of sexual misconduct and its laws. It presents some background information on Stephen ...
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This chapter discusses the case of Stephen Ray, which serves as an example of the complicated twists and turns of sexual misconduct and its laws. It presents some background information on Stephen Ray and Brenda, the woman who accused him of sexual assault. The next section studies Stephen and Brenda's account and representation of the events that occurred in Brenda's beauty shop. It then shifts to a transcript of Brenda's confrontation call, where Stephen apologized for everything that Brenda was blaming him of, and studies the structure of a felicitous apology. The chapter ends by discussing six relevant statements that were made in that brief confrontation call, along with the unclear references that Stephen was making while he was apologizing to Brenda.Less
This chapter discusses the case of Stephen Ray, which serves as an example of the complicated twists and turns of sexual misconduct and its laws. It presents some background information on Stephen Ray and Brenda, the woman who accused him of sexual assault. The next section studies Stephen and Brenda's account and representation of the events that occurred in Brenda's beauty shop. It then shifts to a transcript of Brenda's confrontation call, where Stephen apologized for everything that Brenda was blaming him of, and studies the structure of a felicitous apology. The chapter ends by discussing six relevant statements that were made in that brief confrontation call, along with the unclear references that Stephen was making while he was apologizing to Brenda.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846312359
- eISBN:
- 9781846316104
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846316104.009
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
In the early twentienth century, police constables in Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool had both friendly and testy relationships with civilians, including women. Women was a major source of ...
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In the early twentienth century, police constables in Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool had both friendly and testy relationships with civilians, including women. Women was a major source of strain between the strong male culture cultivated in the police force which reinforced working-class male chauvinism and force expectations that men behave with the utmost civility. Contact with women was discouraged because the police image was particularly vulnerable when it came to how women were treated by constables. While constables were punished for any violence towards the public, stiff penalties awaited those who committed sexual misconduct and even minor verbal and physical offences against women, such as asking for or giving unwelcome kisses.Less
In the early twentienth century, police constables in Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool had both friendly and testy relationships with civilians, including women. Women was a major source of strain between the strong male culture cultivated in the police force which reinforced working-class male chauvinism and force expectations that men behave with the utmost civility. Contact with women was discouraged because the police image was particularly vulnerable when it came to how women were treated by constables. While constables were punished for any violence towards the public, stiff penalties awaited those who committed sexual misconduct and even minor verbal and physical offences against women, such as asking for or giving unwelcome kisses.
Henry French and Mark Rothery
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199576692
- eISBN:
- 9780191738852
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199576692.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Social History
Chapter Two traces the growth of male autonomy at university and in metropolitan training: a key stage in the development of manliness and Gentry status. Sons often stretched the boundaries of ...
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Chapter Two traces the growth of male autonomy at university and in metropolitan training: a key stage in the development of manliness and Gentry status. Sons often stretched the boundaries of acceptable behaviour during these experiences. While parents feared the consequences of this new found freedom, this chapter argues that manly autonomy was the essential component in the formation of a mature gender identity. University remained both an intellectual and a social proving ground for young men. However, as university reforms proceeded in the first half of the nineteenth century, success in competitive examinations became a public indication of masculine ‘virtue’ among the English elite. The chapter also examines the pit-falls of late adolescence, particularly the enduring (but often hidden) sub-cultures of masculine violence, drunkenness and sexual licence.Less
Chapter Two traces the growth of male autonomy at university and in metropolitan training: a key stage in the development of manliness and Gentry status. Sons often stretched the boundaries of acceptable behaviour during these experiences. While parents feared the consequences of this new found freedom, this chapter argues that manly autonomy was the essential component in the formation of a mature gender identity. University remained both an intellectual and a social proving ground for young men. However, as university reforms proceeded in the first half of the nineteenth century, success in competitive examinations became a public indication of masculine ‘virtue’ among the English elite. The chapter also examines the pit-falls of late adolescence, particularly the enduring (but often hidden) sub-cultures of masculine violence, drunkenness and sexual licence.
Roger W. Shuy
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199926961
- eISBN:
- 9780199980505
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199926961.003.0015
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter takes a look at the case of Sheriff William Preston, who was accused of sexual misconduct by a secretary in one of the law enforcement departments. It notes that the sheriff had no ...
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This chapter takes a look at the case of Sheriff William Preston, who was accused of sexual misconduct by a secretary in one of the law enforcement departments. It notes that the sheriff had no previous records of sexual misconduct behavior, and was not a reported lecher. Despite the number of video and audio recording devices that were installed in the secretary's work area, the only piece of evidence available was an unclear recording of a conversation between the secretary and the sheriff. It considers the representations of both the sheriff and the secretary, which appear to be uncertain and ambiguous based on the recording. It also examines the inaccuracy of the transcript, as well as the sense of interpersonal trust that existed between the sheriff and the secretary before the accusations were made. The chapter concludes with a section on whether the sheriff apologized and/or confessed to his behavior.Less
This chapter takes a look at the case of Sheriff William Preston, who was accused of sexual misconduct by a secretary in one of the law enforcement departments. It notes that the sheriff had no previous records of sexual misconduct behavior, and was not a reported lecher. Despite the number of video and audio recording devices that were installed in the secretary's work area, the only piece of evidence available was an unclear recording of a conversation between the secretary and the sheriff. It considers the representations of both the sheriff and the secretary, which appear to be uncertain and ambiguous based on the recording. It also examines the inaccuracy of the transcript, as well as the sense of interpersonal trust that existed between the sheriff and the secretary before the accusations were made. The chapter concludes with a section on whether the sheriff apologized and/or confessed to his behavior.
Franklin E. Zimring
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226983578
- eISBN:
- 9780226983592
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226983592.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This book, which analyzes the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States, discusses American society's failure to consider the developmental ...
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This book, which analyzes the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States, discusses American society's failure to consider the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders. Too often, the author argues, the American legal system ignores age and developmental status when adjudicating young sexual offenders, in many cases responding as they would to an adult.Less
This book, which analyzes the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States, discusses American society's failure to consider the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders. Too often, the author argues, the American legal system ignores age and developmental status when adjudicating young sexual offenders, in many cases responding as they would to an adult.
Katherine M. Franke
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300098006
- eISBN:
- 9780300135305
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300098006.003.0013
- Subject:
- Law, Employment Law
This chapter shows how sexual misconduct has been considered as a form of sex discrimination and how, through time, this has come to go without saying. Until recently, the “why” of sexual harassment ...
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This chapter shows how sexual misconduct has been considered as a form of sex discrimination and how, through time, this has come to go without saying. Until recently, the “why” of sexual harassment has remained underexamined by courts and commentators alike. It is to this issue that both legal scholars and the Supreme Court have turned their attention of late. Unfortunately, now, as in 1979, a number of foundational questions remain unaddressed in the jurisprudence that has evolved in response to this “fact” of our working lives. First, what does it say about our legal conception of gender-based subordination that we treat sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination? Second, why should we treat sexual harassment differently from racial or ethnic harassment, or other forms of seemingly “nonsexual” sex discrimination for that matter?Less
This chapter shows how sexual misconduct has been considered as a form of sex discrimination and how, through time, this has come to go without saying. Until recently, the “why” of sexual harassment has remained underexamined by courts and commentators alike. It is to this issue that both legal scholars and the Supreme Court have turned their attention of late. Unfortunately, now, as in 1979, a number of foundational questions remain unaddressed in the jurisprudence that has evolved in response to this “fact” of our working lives. First, what does it say about our legal conception of gender-based subordination that we treat sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination? Second, why should we treat sexual harassment differently from racial or ethnic harassment, or other forms of seemingly “nonsexual” sex discrimination for that matter?
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226983578
- eISBN:
- 9780226983592
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226983592.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter presents three case studies illustrating the extraordinary recent history of legal responses to problematic sexual activities of children and teens in the United States. It intends to ...
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This chapter presents three case studies illustrating the extraordinary recent history of legal responses to problematic sexual activities of children and teens in the United States. It intends to provide an introduction to that part of the legal system concerned with child and adolescent sexual misconduct and to some troublesome trends in legal policy. Like other states in recent years, Idaho passed legislation in 1998 establishing the Sexual Offender Registration, Notification, and Community Right-to-Know Act. The first section of this statute contains a set of legislative findings which rehearses the factual assumptions that are the premises on which the regulatory scheme is based. The Idaho offender registration findings assert that sexual offenders present a significant risk of re-offending and that providing public access to information about such offenders assists parents in the protection of their children.Less
This chapter presents three case studies illustrating the extraordinary recent history of legal responses to problematic sexual activities of children and teens in the United States. It intends to provide an introduction to that part of the legal system concerned with child and adolescent sexual misconduct and to some troublesome trends in legal policy. Like other states in recent years, Idaho passed legislation in 1998 establishing the Sexual Offender Registration, Notification, and Community Right-to-Know Act. The first section of this statute contains a set of legislative findings which rehearses the factual assumptions that are the premises on which the regulatory scheme is based. The Idaho offender registration findings assert that sexual offenders present a significant risk of re-offending and that providing public access to information about such offenders assists parents in the protection of their children.
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226762821
- eISBN:
- 9780226762951
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226762951.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
The new mystical trends and contemplative techniques that were observed in the early years of the sixteenth century became associated by the 1640s with demonism in general and diabolic possession in ...
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The new mystical trends and contemplative techniques that were observed in the early years of the sixteenth century became associated by the 1640s with demonism in general and diabolic possession in particular. But opponents of the new forms of mental prayer and of passivity were not the only people to express such anxieties. Contemplative people themselves were equally uneasy. They, too, perceived the spiritual route they were pursuing as perilous, and they, too, articulated an inherent affinity between some forms of acquired contemplation and diabolic possession. Demons have always prowled after members of religious orders. Thus, the early history of the Dominican order was portrayed by its first chroniclers as a continuous struggle against the devil's relentless attempts to destroy the young order. This chapter first looks at the dangers of contemplation as they were portrayed by practitioners of passive forms of contemplation. It then examines four cases of pre-Quietist scandals in seventeenth-century Europe, in which the connection among the new forms of spirituality, sexual misconduct, and demonic possession was made explicit.Less
The new mystical trends and contemplative techniques that were observed in the early years of the sixteenth century became associated by the 1640s with demonism in general and diabolic possession in particular. But opponents of the new forms of mental prayer and of passivity were not the only people to express such anxieties. Contemplative people themselves were equally uneasy. They, too, perceived the spiritual route they were pursuing as perilous, and they, too, articulated an inherent affinity between some forms of acquired contemplation and diabolic possession. Demons have always prowled after members of religious orders. Thus, the early history of the Dominican order was portrayed by its first chroniclers as a continuous struggle against the devil's relentless attempts to destroy the young order. This chapter first looks at the dangers of contemplation as they were portrayed by practitioners of passive forms of contemplation. It then examines four cases of pre-Quietist scandals in seventeenth-century Europe, in which the connection among the new forms of spirituality, sexual misconduct, and demonic possession was made explicit.
