LS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Drug Rehabilitation, Drug Liberalization, Targeted Advertising
22 Aug 2019
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Rationalistic model: proposes that laws (in particular, criminal laws) are created as rational means of protecting the members of society from social harm. Functionalistic model: concerned mainly with how laws emerge . Conflict perspective: values diversity, unequal access to economic goods, and the resulting structural cleavages of a society are the basic determinant of laws. Moral entrepreneur theory: attributes the precipitation o f key events to the presence of an enterprising individual or group who enterprise for moral societal constitution. Mala prohibita: behaviours made criminal by statute, but with no consensus as to whether these acts are criminal in themselves. Mala in se: acts evil in themselves, with public agreement on the dangers they impose. Origins of drug criminalization: legislation against opium in 1908, anti -chinese. Prohibition advantages: fulfills the societal demand to punish, stigmatize, and exclude users of certain substances. Protects against drug -related mortality, reduces high -risk behaviours and spreading of hiv/aids.
