CRCJ 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: George Herbert Mead, Travis Hirschi, Cesare Beccaria
19 Jan 2016
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Individuals have free will and choose to commit crime on their own. Laws are used to control behaviour-general response to crime is punishment. Argued that all humans should be held accountable for their own behaviours. We should have less law and more due process. Nobody should be exempt from the law (no one is above the law) Rather than punishment we should use prevention. Punishment should be used as a method of deterrence. Laws should be codified and punishments publicized (public hangings) Punishment must be certain and swift and applied without prejudice (everyone is punished the same) Prevention (deterrence) of crime is a result of: certainty (how likely punishment is to occur, celerity (swiftness, how quickly punishment is inflicted, severity (how much pain is inflicted) Prostitution: exchange of sex for money and other things of value. Section 210 of the cc outlaws common bawdy houses. Section 212 of the cc prohibits procuring prostitution or living on the avails of.
