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Coercion Acts
The Oxford Companion to Irish History
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Coercion Acts, general term for a series of measures commencing with the Suppression of Disturbances Act (1833). Like the earlier
Insurrection Act, this empowered the
lord lieutenant to proclaim a district as disturbed, permitting the imposition of a curfew and other restrictions, as well as detention without trial for up to three months. It differed from the Insurrection Act in providing for trial by military courts rather than magistrates in special session. The Crime and Outrage Act (1847) once again imposed curfew and other restrictions on proclaimed districts, as well as authorizing the dispatch to such districts of extra police, to be paid for by the inhabitants. The act, modified in 1856, was regularly renewed up to 1875. A different approach, targeting individuals rather than districts, appeared in the suspension, in 1871 and 1881, of
habeas corpus. The Prevention of Crime Act, in force for three years from 1882, permitted trial for specific offences by a panel of three judges and created a legal offence of intimidation. Arthur
Balfour's Criminal Law and Procedure Act (1887) once again defined intimidation and conspiracy, gave resident magistrates in districts proclaimed under the act powers of investigation and summary jurisdiction, and empowered the lord lieutenant to suppress subversive organizations. This was a permanent measure, still relied on in the early stages of the
Anglo‐Irish War.
See
Martial Law;
Special Courts.
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WHEN IS COERCION SUCCESSFUL?: And Why Can't We Agree on It?
Magazine article from: Naval War College Review; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; When is coercion successful? How is success to be defined? Coercion, broadly speaking, is the use of threats to influence...Although there is a substantial and growing literature on coercion, there is little consensus within that literature...
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Sexual Coercion Content in 21 Sexuality Education Curricula.
Magazine article from: Journal of School Health; 11/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...which fall within the category of sexual coercion. In the past few years, several reports...appeared in the literature regarding sexual coercion. Many of these reports were empirically...incest, and sexual abuse."[2] Sexual coercion exists on a continuum of behavior from...
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Sexual Coercion in Gay/Lesbian Relationships: Descriptives and Gender Differences
Magazine article from: Violence and Victims; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...findings that lesbians experience sexual coercion at higher rates than gay men, the results...to be classified as victims of sexual coercion. Gay men also were found to experience...Other analyses specific to the type of coercion experienced and the severity of the sexual...
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The Supreme Court's coercion test: insufficient constitutional protection for America's religious minorities.
Magazine article from: Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...INTRODUCTION The organizing principle of coercion has assumed increasing importance in...decision in Lee v. Weisman introduced coercion as a First Amendment standard. (2...Recently, the Court has expanded the coercion test to cover activities that employ...
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Legitimacy, coercion, and leadership among the Sursurunga of southern New Ireland.
Magazine article from: Ethnology; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...267ff.) that treats legitimacy and coercion as "ends of a single continuum" (Swartz...This model shows how legitimacy and coercion are linked to general and specific status...of those whose behavior is at issue; coercion emerges in the expectation of the quid...
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Characteristics of male and female victims of sexual coercion.(Report)
Magazine article from: The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...and women who had experienced sexual coercion shared similar characteristics, and...indicating a prevalence of various forms of coercion of 38.8% for men and 47.9% for...and women's experience with sexual coercion were replicated, specifically the initiator...
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Clarifying confusions about coercion.(Essays)
Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...in clinical studies. Discussion of "coercion" is common in scholarly articles, in...therefore equate lack of good choices with coercion. For example, in an article on trials...itself." (1) But discussion of "coercion" is not new. In an influential article...
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Credible Coercion
Magazine article from: Texas Law Review; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...requires that society provide relief against coercion. In the law, this requirement is often...translated into rules that operate "post-coercion" to undo the legal consequences of acts...party, might in fact hurt her. When coercion is credible-when a credible threat...
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Coercion, causation, and the fictional elements of indirect state responsibility.
Magazine article from: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...have covered such situations involving coercion. In reaching this conclusion, this Article explores the fascinating roles that coercion and causation play within the law of...INTRODUCTION II. INDIRECT RESPONSIBILITY AND COERCION A. The Conflict Between Representation...
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Sexual coercion among university students: a comparison of the United States and Sweden.
Magazine article from: The Journal of Sex Research; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...scientists have used the term sexual coercion to refer to an interaction in which someone...documented the widespread prevalence of sexual coercion and its many harmful effects and consequences...emergence of sociocultural theories of sexual coercion, few researchers have examined crossnational...
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Coercion
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
COERCION The intimidation of a victim to compel...death. In the laws governing wills, coercion is present when a testator is forced by...her free choice in making the will. If coercion is established in a proceeding to admit...
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coercion bills
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
coercion bills, under various names, were a sombre...x2018;whitefeet’ with a coercion act which allowed the lord-lieutenant...agitation, was accompanied by another coercion act widening powers of arrest and detention...
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coercion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
coercion in law, the unlawful act of compelling...other is not legally bound to perform. Coercion may involve other crimes, such as assault...common law, one who commits a crime under coercion may be excused if he can show that the...
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Coercion Acts
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Coercion Acts, general term for a series of measures commencing with the Suppression of Disturbances Act (1833). Like the earlier Insurrection...
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Libertarianism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...between voluntary and coercive action. Coercion is the aggressive invasion (including...does not get a special dispensation on coercion. In the eyes of the libertarian, everything...of organization engaged in wholesale coercion, and coercion is the treading on liberty...
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