CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: User Friendly, Call Girl, Harm Reduction

• School: UNL
• Department: Criminology & Criminal Justice (UNO)
• Course: CRIM 101
• Professor: Davidsaver

Document Summary

Discuss controversial issues: drug use, gambling and sex work. Compare and contrast arguments for and against drug legalization or decriminalization. A person who suffers direct physical, emotional or pecuniary harm as the result of a criminal act. Von hentig: biological, sociological and psychological. Wolfgang and sellin (primary, secondary, and tertiary: situational rather than personal characteristics, relationship between victim and suspect (cid:862)i(cid:374)(cid:374)o(cid:272)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) (cid:448)s. p(cid:396)e(cid:272)ipitatio(cid:374) Innocent victim (christie and mendelsohn: did nothing to deserve the bad result. Victim precipitation (von hentig: played a(cid:374) a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:396)ole to i(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:396)ease (cid:862)(cid:448)ul(cid:374)e(cid:396)a(cid:271)ility(cid:863, was i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)ed i(cid:374) (cid:862)at (cid:396)is (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396)(cid:863) Victims of hate crime: evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation or ethnicity, mot popular motive of offenders: thrill-seeking. The elderly and children: o(cid:272)iety"s (cid:862)most vul(cid:374)e(cid:396)a(cid:271)le(cid:863) Articulate the harm the criminal cause: physical, psychological, economic. Actions criminalized because they offend community standards rather than cause direct harm to people or property.