Foreword: "You Are Entering a Gay and Lesbian Free Zone": On the Radical Dissents of Justice Scalia and Other (Post-) Queers. [Raising Questions about Lawrence, Sex Wars, and the Criminal Law] | Zendy

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Foreword: "You Are Entering a Gay and Lesbian Free Zone": On the Radical Dissents of Justice Scalia and Other (Post-) Queers. [Raising Questions about Lawrence, Sex Wars, and the Criminal Law]

Author(s) -

Bernard E. Harcourt

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

the journal of criminal law and criminology (1973-)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578

H-Index - 46

eISSN - 2160-0325

pISSN - 0091-4169

DOI - 10.2307/3491390

Subject(s) - lesbian , raising (metalworking) , law , economic justice , criminology , criminal justice , political science , sociology , gender studies , engineering , mechanical engineering

The most renowned substantive criminal law decision of the October 2002 Term, Lawrence v. Texas, will go down in history as a critical turning point in criminal law debates over the proper scope of the penal sanction. For the first time in the history of American criminal law, the United States Supreme Court has declared that a supermajoritarian moral belief does not necessarily provide a rational basis for criminalizing conventionally deviant conduct. The Court’s ruling is the coup de grâce to legal moralism

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