Shelly's story exemplifies a toxic combination of drug laws, police coercion, failure to protect citizens and informants and dangerous jail and prison conditions for transgender individuals that intensifies the surveillance and vulnerability of transwomen.
Responding to Joseph Raz, Edmundson, and Lamonde, inter alia, Ekow Yankah defends the traditional view connecting law and coercion, contending that "Legal norms must be ultimately enforceable by coercion to be included in the core concept of the law" (Yankah 2008, 1198).
Many extremists want to prove the righteousness of their beliefs by violence, law and coercion.
Families have always been shaped by law — by coercion, as well as by social convention.
As the historical section of this entry suggests, the relationship between states, law, and coercion has been a subject of vast discussion throughout Western philosophical history.
Meanwhile, 'government' forms a state by exercising influence and control through law and coercion that might be perceived as a means to order, or as an end for social existence, with compromises between these two.
Foucault, among others, has described this privileging, or this flow of power, as bio-power, operating in and through the significant historical transition contemporaneous with the shaping of industrial capitalism, in which emphasis shifts from the primacy of sovereignty, law, and coercion or the force "to take life -- to the development of new forms of power constitutive of life [ 1].
Rozenberg urges the government to heed the advice of the Law Commission and abolish the law of marital coercion at the earliest opportunity.
For a discussion of a variety of possible connections between law, states, and coercion, see Lamond 2001, pp. 42-45.
This article uses sex legislation as an example to demonstrate how the old rape law based on coercion has anti-therapeutic effects on rape victims.
