Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just out. I'm not a pervert. It's more like an anthropological study." She mentions that she may try to integrate this into an upcoming photo project ("because people are so much better when they're not posing for you") though she's not sure about the legal implications for displaying such unauthorized and intimate portraits...
While acknowledging that "like-race" similes have caused friction in both racially and sexually identified groups, Halley concluded that such similes can in fact be a helpful political and legal tool...
...Sometimes minoritizing representations do work in the sense that they facilitate actual legal reform," she said...
Much harder to dismiss are child access prevention laws (or CAP laws), which hold adults--often parents and legal guardians--accountable if they allow guns to fall into underage hands. Shannan Wilber, attorney at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, says that unlike parent-responsibility laws, CAP laws draw a direct causal relationship between adults and the crimes committed by juveniles. "Where there is a closer connection," she says, "such as a parent's possession of firearms and failure to keep them away from their kids, it's easier to connect that to a subsequent criminal...
...itself was little more than an extension of the 1994 Crime Bill ban, from which Clinton and Gore have gotten a lot of mileage. But it's not all bad news for semiautomatic addicts -- the .308-caliber Vepr, a modified AK-47, made it through review to remain perfectly legal...