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Theories of coercion exist across multiple disciplines to explicate the ability of one actor, the coercer, to diminish the free will of another, the coercee, in the absence of overt physical force. A valid claim of coercion places legal blame on the coercer or relinquishes the coercee from legal responsibility for a coerced act or omission. Defining the point at which coercion occurs, however, is the conceptually more difficult task. Recently, coercion has emerged as a significant source of analytic concern in a developing area of the law-contemporary involuntary labor or human trafficking. It is in this setting where coercion is explicitly codified as a fundamental legal element in human-trafficking crimes. However, the laws addressing human trafficking continue to struggle with deline...
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This study uses structural equation modeling (SEM) with a sample of 760 college males to test various hypotheses regarding the avenues whereby harsh corporal punishment and a troubled relationship with parents increase the risk that a boy will grow up to engage in sexual coercion and dating violence. We found that three variables-a general antisocial orientation, sexually permissive attitudes, and believing that violence is a legitimate component of romantic relationships-mediated most of the association between negative parenting and our two outcomes. In addition to this indirect influence, we found that harsh corporal punishment had a direct effect upon dating violence. The findings are discussed with regard to various theoretical perspectives regarding the manner in which family of o...
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In other words, for Habermas, the basis of critical theory is undermined by the line that the Frankfurt School pursues. [...] from the beginning Habermas has been preoccupied with two tasks: first, searching for the ground of critique, and second, providing a critique of power in modern societies. [...] the agreement formed in the instrumental-strategic action is not seriously intended while in the latter case it is.\n While Foucault's analysis of power has been widely criticized in terms of a suspension of normative questions,4 it has an advantage of reminding us of the danger of power and coercion.
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Editorial The liberal period saw much coercion of religion in public life and it could occupy a greater space in postmodernism. A re-envisioning of the foundation of religious liberty taking the postmodern situation into account would be necessary and this arguments would have to convince both the postmodernists who have rejected liberalism and the conservative Christians who have always been wary of the same. Conservative Christians tend to feel that the costs of religious liberty have been too high.
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More than a decade after Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA") and expanded the remedies available for disability discrimination in employment with the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Seventh Circuit, in Kramer v. Banc of America Securities, determined that victims of ADA employment retaliation were ineligible to recover compensatory and punitive damages or to receive a jury trial. This Note asserts that based on the language, structure, and legislative history of the ADA and Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Seventh Circuit erred in its approach and conclusion. Since Kramer, many other courts have prevented victims of ADA retaliation from recovering legal damages. This Note explains that this trend is unfortunate, and it contends that Congress should provide a r...
