SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Brothel, The Strongest

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Terry Conlin

Document Summary

It is difficult to identify if they are even there let alone change them: the danger in targeting particular groups, communities, can actually lead to the reproduction of race based understandings of crime, the cultural constructions of race. Slide 2: the idea of a continuum of crime and deviance. There is no clear line that divides crime and deviance. Hoe criminal law makes that distinction between what is criminal and deviant. Slide 3: hence, we need to ask questions about who"s morality is in question, examples include, drug use & prostitution. There isn"t a direct victim because people choose to engage in these activities: a) a lot of people believe that selling your body for money is wrong. 3 provisions of prostitution in canada owning, managing, leasing, occupying, or being found in a bawdy house: procuring or living off the avails of prostitution, communicating for the purpose of prostitution. Only 3% of people experience problems stopping their cocaine use.