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Such a measured style is especially effective in handling rape and domestic- violence calls, in which the victims are usually women. In 1985 a study of police officers' treatment of spousal-abuse cases by two University of Detroit professors concluded that female officers show more empathy and commitment to resolving these conflicts. While generalizations invite unfair stereotyping, male officers often tend not to take these calls as seriously, despite improved training and arrest policies in almost half of all states. "Men tend to come on with a stronger approach to quiet a recalcitrant male suspect," notes Baltimore County police chief...
...lower federal court upheld all portions of the law except the spousal- notification provision. But in the process it declared that abortion is no longer a fundamental right that requires courts to apply "strict scrutiny" to any restrictions that states might apply. If the Supreme Court endorses that view, it would send a signal to legislatures that even steeper obstacles to abortion might be acceptable so long as they can be justified by the easier standard of a "legislative rationale." Says Kathryn Kolbert, an A.C.L.U. lawyer who will argue the case before the court: "If states are given a green...
According to Suleiman, Duke is able to offer Schor more than Harvard, including an endowed chair and a spousal policy. This policy means that Duke will, as a recruitment incentive, make an effort to hire a potential faculty member's spouse...
...states have completely eliminated preferential treatment for husbands, 26 other states hover in a gray zone: without gross brutality, the husband has the benefit of the doubt. If prosecutors decide they have enough for a case, ( however, they usually win; between 1978 and 1985, only 118 cases of spousal rape went to trial, but 104 wound up with a conviction...
...Spousal benefits were originally intended to aid families where one parent remained home to care for children and thus would not receive his or her own coverage, Silva says. Gay and lesbian partners are not covered, he says, because the university assumes both partners will work and that "children aren't an issue...