Laura Beth Nielsen is currently Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and will be Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University beginning in the fall of 2006. She is the editor, with Robert L. Nelson, of "Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and Realities".

• List of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1 CHAPTER TWO Law and Power in Sidewalk Encounters: Conflicting Perspectives on Offensive Public Speech 17 CHAPTER THREE Experiencing Offensive Public Speech: The Detailed Calculus for Being in Public 39 CHAPTER FOUR Offensive Public Speech as a Personal Problem, Social Problem, and Subject for Legal Intervention 68 CHAPTER FIVE Ordinary Citizens' Views of the Legal Regulation of Street Speech 98 CHAPTER SIX Power in Public: Reactions, Responses, and Resistance to Offensive Public Speech 133 CHAPTER SEVEN License to Harass 167 APPENDIX A Research Design 181 APPENDIX B Questionnaire 198 Notes 207 Cases Cited 211 References 213 Index 219

"The author has written a compelling text that not only highlights the problem of offensive public speech experienced daily by ordinary citizens but broadens our understanding of this noxious issue."--Susan Fineran, American Journal of Sociology

Laura Beth Nielsen is currently Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and will be Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University beginning in the fall of 2006. She is the editor, with Robert L. Nelson, of "Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and Realities".

• List of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1 CHAPTER TWO Law and Power in Sidewalk Encounters: Conflicting Perspectives on Offensive Public Speech 17 CHAPTER THREE Experiencing Offensive Public Speech: The Detailed Calculus for Being in Public 39 CHAPTER FOUR Offensive Public Speech as a Personal Problem, Social Problem, and Subject for Legal Intervention 68 CHAPTER FIVE Ordinary Citizens' Views of the Legal Regulation of Street Speech 98 CHAPTER SIX Power in Public: Reactions, Responses, and Resistance to Offensive Public Speech 133 CHAPTER SEVEN License to Harass 167 APPENDIX A Research Design 181 APPENDIX B Questionnaire 198 Notes 207 Cases Cited 211 References 213 Index 219

"The author has written a compelling text that not only highlights the problem of offensive public speech experienced daily by ordinary citizens but broadens our understanding of this noxious issue."--Susan Fineran, American Journal of Sociology

Laura Beth Nielsen is currently Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and will be Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University beginning in the fall of 2006. She is the editor, with Robert L. Nelson, of "Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and Realities".

• List of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1 CHAPTER TWO Law and Power in Sidewalk Encounters: Conflicting Perspectives on Offensive Public Speech 17 CHAPTER THREE Experiencing Offensive Public Speech: The Detailed Calculus for Being in Public 39 CHAPTER FOUR Offensive Public Speech as a Personal Problem, Social Problem, and Subject for Legal Intervention 68 CHAPTER FIVE Ordinary Citizens' Views of the Legal Regulation of Street Speech 98 CHAPTER SIX Power in Public: Reactions, Responses, and Resistance to Offensive Public Speech 133 CHAPTER SEVEN License to Harass 167 APPENDIX A Research Design 181 APPENDIX B Questionnaire 198 Notes 207 Cases Cited 211 References 213 Index 219

"The author has written a compelling text that not only highlights the problem of offensive public speech experienced daily by ordinary citizens but broadens our understanding of this noxious issue."--Susan Fineran, American Journal of Sociology