SOC 2700 Chapter 13: SOC2700- chapter 13 reading notes

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Reza Barmaki

Document Summary

Public order crimes or victimless crimes are behaviours that run opposite to societies norms and usually include acts that offend our moral sense of how people should act. Mala in se mean inherently evil and wrong. Mala prohibition crimes which are behaviors outlawed because they conflict with social policy, moral sensibilities and current public opinions. The purpose of criminal law is protecting society and reduce social harm. The victim is harder to identify in immoral acts such as prostitution because the parties involved may be willing participants. Some people are forced into things like prostitution due to the life they have lived and the struggles they have gone through. Although less then 20% of prostitutes are juveniles currently, most started by the age of. Just because acts are immoral does not mean they are criminal. Violations of conventional morality may even be tolerated because they serve a useful social function.