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A FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF POLICE STOPS
JOSEPHINE ROSS
The Shapeshifting Crown
Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK
9781108733854 Paperback AUD $43.95 / NZD $47.95 Available December 2020
Cris Shore, University of Auckland David V. Williams, University of Auckland
The Crown stands at the heart of the New Zealand, British, Australian and Canadian constitutions as the ultimate source of legal authority and embodiment of state power. A familiar icon of the Westminster model of government, it is also an enigma. Even constitutional experts struggle to define its attributes and boundaries: who or what is the Crown and how is it embodied? Is it the Queen, the state, the government, a corporation sole or aggregate, a relic of feudal England, a metaphor, or a mask for the operation of executive power? How are its powers exercised? How have the Crowns of different Commonwealth countries developed? The Shapeshifting Crown combines legal and anthropological perspectives to provide novel insights into the Crown’s changing nature and its multiple, ambiguous and contradictory meanings.
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A Feminist Critique of Police Stops
9781108710879 Paperback AUD $43.95 / NZD $47.95 Available December 2020
Josephine Ross, Howard University School of Law
A Feminist Critique of Police Stops examines the parallels between stop-andfrisk policing and sexual harassment. Law professor Josephine Ross trained teenagers to protect their rights only to discover 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 US 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 how police use stop-and-frisk to threaten and marginalize vulnerable communities.
