Who Feels Entitled to Assert Legal Rights?

Kathryne M. Young & Katie Billings, Legal Consciousness and Cultural Capital, 54 Law & Soc’y Rev. 33 (2020).

Elizabeth Chambliss

Consider the following hypothetical:

One day before you leave for work, an officer knocks on your door and says that there have been drug sales reported on your block. He says you don’t have to let him in, but that he’s checking the homes in the suspected area, and that it will only take 20 minutes. You are already late for an […]