SOC 12 Study Guide - Final Guide: Consensual Crime, Telephone Tapping, Harm Reduction
31 Oct 2018
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Consensual crime laws are often arbitrary, sometimes harmful. Distinct because they involve people who participate in these behaviors willingly. Families, lead to other crimes involving unwilling victims. Lead consensual offenders to engage in other types of crime. Diver time, money, energy from serious crime fighting. Prompt law enforcement agencies to engage in wire tapping, other violations of civil liberties. Governments in us spend estimated billions per year on fighting illegal drugs. Society with little/no drug use rare in human history. In us history, drug use viewed as either problem needing help or as medicinal medicinal. Most of s use drugs at on time of another. More than 80% of americans use coffee and other caffeine products regularly. Physicians provide 250 million prescriptions a year for psychoactive drugs. 20% of high school seniors, 18% of college students. 1/3 of college students binge drinking in past 2 weeks.
