LS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Amicus Curiae, Harm Reduction, Street Prostitution
22 Aug 2019
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Police discretion: determining when the victim"s complaint warrants formal action and encouraging private settlement whenever possible. Reactive police work: a response to citizen mobilization via a 911 call or other means. Proactive police work: undertaken on the initiative of police themselves without citizen mobilization. Interest group thesis: contends that laws are created because of the special interests of certain groups in the population. Effectiveness of interest groups: determined by factors such as: Ability to create a crisis (social disorder, economic slowdown, reduction of necessities) Prostitute: a person of either sex engaging in prostitution. Purchasing offense: criminalizes the purchase of sexual services and communication for th at purpose. Advertising offense: prohibits the advertisi ng of sexual services for consideration . Material benefit offense: criminalizes knowingly receiving a material benefit from the furnishing of sexual services. Procuring offense: criminalizes procuring a person to offer or provide sexual services for consi deration, or exercising control over that person.
