CRIM 103 Lecture Notes - Volstead Act, Blasphemous Libel, Methamphetamine
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70 year old pensioner awaken to find big, shaggy haired man in his house carrying an object- shoots him, is arrested for murder. Mother courage finds her son about to be executed. He doesn"t understand as he did the same thing last week- rape, kill pillage- and was commended. Fraser commission on pornography and prostitution young female lawyers demanded that violent and degrading material be defined as obscene. Janine fuller major purveyor of such material is given an honorary phd by simon. In 1895 in uk: oscar wilde & lord alfred douglas. 2010: president of malawi pardoned gay couple who married. Its definition turns from homosexuality, oral sex, gay marriage towards environmental pollution. Newman found: consensus among india, indonesia, iran, italy, usa and yugoslavia, differences in severity of punishment for robbery, larceny, incest and factory pollution, majority, except usa, advocated punishing homosexuality. Wilson and herrnstein: act breaking the law circumscribed in time and space.