Inspired by the political interventions of feminist women of color and Foucauldian social theory, Anna Marie Smith explores the scope and structure of the child support enforcement, family cap, ...marriage promotion, and abstinence education measures that are embedded within contemporary United States welfare policy. Presenting original legal research and drawing from historical sources, social theory, and normative frameworks, the author argues that these measures violate the rights of poor mothers. Drawing on several historical precedents the author shows that welfare policy has consistently constructed the sexual conduct of the racialized poor mother as one of its primary disciplinary targets. The book concludes with a vigorous and detailed critique of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's support for welfare reform law and an outline of a progressive feminist approach to poverty policy.
A multidisciplinary exploration of agency as a central psychological phenomenon based on the affective, embodied, and relational processing of human experience.
Eines der tragenden Strukturprinzipien des deutschen Strafrechts ist die Forderung, es dürfe nur als letztes Mittel möglicher rechtlicher Instrumente zur Steuerung eines Lebensbereichs eingesetzt ...werden. Nicht nur aus Anlass einer beim BVerfG anhängigen Richtervorlage, in der Karlsruhe sich möglicherweise praktischen Konsequenzen dieses Imperativs zuzuwenden beabsichtigt, sondern auch mit einem Seitenblick auf die kritischen Bemerkungen, die Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz dem Ultima Ratio-Grundsatz unlängst in dieser Zeitschrift (JZ 2016, 641-650) gewidmet hat, wird im Folgenden der Versuch einer Neuausrichtung des Grundsatzes unter den wissenschaftstheoretischen Vorzeichen des Strafverfassungsrechts unternommen.
"More than most other web applications, Second Life illustrates the potential of the Internet to amplify the fragmentation of human personality by inducing a manifold of 'dummy identities' strictly ...dissociated between each other as well as from the piloting core personality behind the screen. In contrast to partialized offline identities as they emerge as correlates of 'crossing social circles' (Georg Simmel), they transport only cues that are consciously intended and that are permanently amenable to intentional change. It is speculated that such 'distributed personhood' is functional for freeing personal presence, interpersonal interactions and social memberships from the limitations of time and space, but that it has disintegrative effects which call for counteracting face-to-face interactions." (author's abstract)
