CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: White-Collar Crime, Social Inequality, Recreational Drug Use

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Morality and crime: exploring crime on the margins , examining the links between morality and crime, criminalizing drug use: objective harm versus social construction. Objectivist - arguses that the status of behaviours and social practices as social problems is based on their objective characteristics in particular objective and measurable forms of harm. Constructionist - views the status of behaviours or practices as social problems is a result of process of social construction. de ned as problems due to their objective harm bit rather due to their perceived harm. !1: links between the process of social construction and the wider social, political, and economic context in which the process takes place, the legal boundaries between crime and deviance re ect prevailing forms of power, con ict, and social inequality. Morality and crime: morality as a foundation for criminal law. Harm is clear and important between morality and crime: victimless crimes and the ambiguity of them.

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