SOC379H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 91 pages long!)
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Lawyers, police officers: something that is a crime but is never enforced, why are certain crimes cared more for than others, ex insider trading to sexual assaults, policy makers, writing new laws and legislations. What is crime = what is against the law . Wolfenden committee 1954: looking into homosexuality and prostitution, the understanding that homosexuality can be considered immoral and sin of society but it"s a private matter, they suggest that it should not be criminal. The curious case of drugs: utilitarian is not too concerned with self- harm, as long as you do no harms to others. Morris and hawkins: law exacerbates criminal problem in morality offences : how does law exacerbates crime, 1. Crime tariff: desirable are illegal so profitable, things like gambling, drugs, alcohol during prohibition, drove up the price and made it profitable, it limits competition as well, 2.
