answer:
Hi Susie,
From what I could find, Massachusetts isn’t among the states that classify drug use by pregnant women as child abuse. You can find a summary of state’s policies here:
law
QUESTION: More anti-rioting questions
question / pregunta:
Thanks for answering the first question about the 1968 Federal anti-rioting law USC Title 18, Chapter 102 18USC102. The question is How many unduplicated prosecutions and/or investigations have the FBI done using this code. I was told by a lawyer the information maybe available in the Library of Congress or through some data on crime statistics that the FBI keeps.
ANSWER: MA Cori Check (the problem of "Legal and Medical Questions")
answer:
Legal and medical questions pose a real hazard for librarians, because we have to avoid "Unauthorized practice of law" in most states.
Homeless Law Blog
A law librarian/attorney has created a Homeless Law Blog to share legal expertise for the homeless (and presumably those who wish to help them).
- jbeek's blog
- Login or register to post comments
- Read more
American law specifying that a man can beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb?
answer:
Overall, there doesn't seem to be one concrete answer on this that everyone agrees on, but the following references might shed some light on it for you...
QUESTION: Dangerous prisoners
question / pregunta:
I am taking a class in Criminal Justice and Christian Theology, and it has raised a question for me. As we discussed the question of reforming the current prison system vs. abolishing it and starting over, several class members asked "if we shut down the prisons, what would we do with all the Charles Mansons?" I am wondering how many prisoners we are really talking about. I have heard their are about 2,300,000 people in prison in the US (as of 2005). Is there any list that tells how many of those would fall into that category of prisoner that even the most liberal persons would not want out wandering the streets?
QUESTION: State "hate crime" statutes and verbal aggression.
question / pregunta:
[Note: I'm submitting this question on behalf of an attendee of the Mid Atlantic Radical Bookfair. I have ideas about how to answer it but it's been a while since I've done legal searching and I know there are experts out there! Contact me with questions and I'll forward them to the asker.]
How many states presently have "hate crime" statutes? Of these, how many cover verbal forms of aggression (e.g., name calling)?
