CJS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Ethan Nadelmann, European Cooperation In Science And Technology
9 Dec 2020
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Offensive behaviour in law includes element of publicness. Prostitution is offensive as it"s visibility and customers are not open. Impact of law on perceptions of morality. Drug laws: attitudes to morphine/heroin changed as its use criminalized. Lower class using it was thought as irresponsible criminals where higher class addicts were thought as victims of the drug. Increase in punitive criminalisation as addicts shifted from middle class females to working class males. Ethan nadelmann: racist roots of drug laws. Notions of risk linked to potential harm long been justification for criminalisation. Justified by (purportedly) scientific discourse on risk actuarial justice". C20th proliferation of use of preventive justice. Extended sentences based on predicted future risk. Gunther, responsibility to protect and preventive justice. Responsibility to protect/prevent presents dangers for democratic polity. Different forms of regulation with different cost and benefits. Criminalisation increase crime or cost and risk eg drug supply. Regulation on people"s private lives should be treated with caution.
