Protection of Domestic Violence Victims Under the New York City Human Rights Law\u27s Provisions Prohibiting Discrimination on the Basis of Disability

This Article analyzes the need to create a new protected class of domestic violence victims to shield them from discrimination in employment. The Article examines arguments for and against proposed legislation to revise the human rights law governing disability, section 8-107 of the New York City Administration Code. The Article concludes that this legislation is unnecessary because the law already provides sufficient protection to domestic violence victims without requiring that victims disclose their domestic violence status to their employers

Choreography, controversy and child sex abuse: Theoretical reflections on a cultural criminological analysis of dance in a pop music video

This article was inspired by the controversy over claims of ‘pedophilia!!!!’ undertones and the ‘triggering’ of memories of childhood sexual abuse in some viewers by the dance performance featured in the music video for Sia’s ‘Elastic Heart’ (2015). The case is presented for acknowledging the hidden and/or overlooked presence of dance in social scientific theory and cultural studies and how these can enhance and advance cultural criminological research. Examples of how these insights have been used within other disciplinary frameworks to analyse and address child sex crime and sexual trauma are provided, and the argument is made that popular cultural texts such as dance in pop music videos should be regarded as significant in analysing and tracing public perceptions and epistemologies of crimes such as child sex abuse

Gibson v. Ada County Sheriff\u27s Office Appellant\u27s Brief Dckt. 34368

https://digitalcommons.law.uidaho.edu/idaho_supreme_court_record_briefs/2628/thumbnail.jp

“Normal citizens” versus “Rowdies”: police categorisations of protesters in Germany

The paper investigates police perceptions of protesters. Based on group discussions with riot police and interviews with high ranking officers, six domains are analysed as dimensions of a risk constellation contributing to the emergence of an enemy image of the protester. The findings suggest that labels describing the “police counterpart” often express distance and opposition (1) and depoliticise demonstrations (2). Furthermore, formal (3) and informal (4) categorisations of protesters as well as the perception of indications of threat in policing practice (5) are examined. Bipolar patterns of classification of protesters were found to be influential. Classifications are partly based in the law and partly in particularistic and normative subcultural attributions of legitimacy which police transfer into their organisational interpretive schemata distinguishing between legality/illegality. For explanatory means the study utilises perspectives of organisational sociology as well as the cultural distance between the police and the protesters (6). This is further elaborated using the social figure of the “normal citizen”, in which specific police conceptions of normality are condensed and which serves as a threshold for the perception of deviant protesters. Besides the implications for theory of democracy of the analysed clichés and enemy images the findings conclusively suggest that the distanced to hostile relationship between the police and some protesters does not merely represent a pedagogical or “practical” problem of the police, but is the expression of a certain conflict structure. In this structure organisational and individual factors on the side of the police as well as their actual conflict experience at demonstrations converge

Linguistic Determinants of Militancy and Terrorism in Nigeria: The Case of M.E.N.D and Boko Haram

This paper engages in the sociolinguistic profiling of militancy and terrorism in the Nigerian context. In this regard, it underpins the linguistic determinants of militancy and terrorism as revealed in the periodic statements of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (hereafter, MEND) and Jama'atul Alhul Sunnah Lidda'wati wal jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram. As a militant group, MEND seeks to defend the rights of the people of the Niger Delta against the predatory and corrupt Nigerian government and exploitations of the foreign energy companies. Boko Haram, an Islamic sect, seeks to establish a fully Islamic state in Nigeria through an armed revolt against the security forces of the Nigerian state. Over the years, these groups have continued to employ periodic statements intended to actualise their sectarian objectives. A number of statements from each of the two groups are analysed to evaluate the factors of phraseology and recurrent common themes. The picture, which emerges from the analysis, suggests that the common themes and phraseology in these statements revolve around their sectarian objectives, which show linguistic indicators of extremism, militancy and terrorism. Such flags and indicators offer a window of opportunity for law and security agencies to identify citizens of militant and terrorist propensity, with a view to synergizing preemptive and preventive intelligence infrastructure for countering militancy and terrorism in Nigeria. Keywords: linguistic determinants, militancy, terrorism, M.E.N.D, Boko Haram, security, Nigeri

Don't Trust Your Eyes: Image Manipulation in the Age of DeepFakes

We review the phenomenon of deepfakes, a novel technology enabling inexpensive manipulation of video material through the use of artificial intelligence, in the context of today’s wider discussion on fake news. We discuss the foundation as well as recent developments of the technology, as well as the differences from earlier manipulation techniques and investigate technical countermeasures. While the threat of deepfake videos with substantial political impact has been widely discussed in recent years, so far, the political impact of the technology has been limited. We investigate reasons for this and extrapolate the types of deepfake videos we are likely to see in the future.publishedVersio