ADMJ 0600 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Public-Order Crime, Victimless Crime, Pedophilia

• School: Pitt
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: ADMJ 0600
• Professor: Louis Gentile

Document Summary

Public order crimes: behavior that is outlawed because it threatens the general well-being of society and challenges its accepted moral principles. Victimless crime: public order crime that violates the moral order but has no specific victim other than society as a whole. Social harm: injury caused to others by willful wrongful conduct. Moral entrepreneur: person who creates moral rules which thus reflect the values of those in power, rather than any objective, universal standards of right and wrong. Paraphilia: bizarre or abnormal sexual practices that may involve nonhuman objects, humiliation or children. Pedophilia: attaining sexual pleasure through sexual activity with prepubescent children. Prostitution: granting of nonmarital sexual access for money. Ehooking: using the internet for purposes of prostitution in order to shield identities and contact clients. Pornography: sexually explicit books, magazines, films and dvd"s intended to provide sexual titillation and excitement for paying customers. Obscenity: material that violates community standards of morality or decency and has no redeeming social value.