CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Escort Agency
30 Nov 2016
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Crim 101 - lecture 10 - crimes of morality & gangs, organized crime. Certain crimes, referred to consensus crimes, are viewed by all societies as harmful & deserving of strict punishment. Crimes of morality - e. g. drug use & selling sex in exchange for money, may not cause direct harm to society but are seen as threatening to societal morals (pg375) Crimes of morality do not necessarily cause harm or have a victim (pg375) Rather, crimes of morality offend some sort of social norm . Laws change to reflect changes in moral standards. But laws rarely keep up w/ speed at which moral standards change. Society & civilizing process demand that people conform, repress basic instincts, play by rules. Despite being bound by rules & regulations, however, there has always been some room for individual freedom & tolerance for some varieties of deviance. If behaviors not perceived as harmful/threatening, they may be tolerated by society/even ignored (pg377)
