CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Barbiturate, Narcotic Control Act, Hallucinogen

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Lara Karaian

Document Summary

Willfully committing an indecent public act in the presence of one or more persons with the intent to insult or offend. Indecency is not defined, this is left to the courts ruling: indecency is almost always sexual, sex that is not normative/reproductive/heterosexual. Public spaces include: motel rooms, cars, public toilets, dark alley, behind bushes in a park, private members club (swingers- r. v. labaye ) Fred desroches (1991: studied tea rooms and how police respond to these activities. Sex work: criminal code using the term prostitution yet is referred to as. Although sex work can include stripper, phone sex, porn star : prostitution carries a large stigma and therefore reinforces discrimination. N. h. i (no humans involved: prostitutes that were killed were often times referred to in crime reports as n. h. i. Fraser reports: committee that argued that it should be allowed for small numbers of prostitutes to organize their activities out of a place of residence.