Saving Our Children from the First Amendment

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Several of the ideas contained in this book were discussed in earlier work. One of the approaches to violent depictions presented was discussed more fully in an earlier book, Violence as Obscenity, and in articles in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal and the Oklahoma Law Review. Earlier analysis of problems raised by the Internet was published in the Drake Law Review. I wish to express my thanks to several individuals for their comments on earlier drafts of this book. Rod Smolla of the University of Richmond and Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic of the University of Colorado all provided extensive and valuable comments, as did the anonymous referees for New York University Press. Their efforts and the work of NYU Press itself are greatly appreciated. I would also like to thank the library staff at Michigan State University—DCL College of Law for their research support. Finally, I would like to thank my wife, Dr. Mary Scott, and our daughter, Molly Saunders-Scott, not only for their support of my efforts but also for the psychological and teenage perspectives they provided on the issues addressed. xi ...