John Hagan

Question 1

JOHN HAGAN

Answer 1

contemporary

Question 2

DICHOTOMY OF A CRIME

What are the two perspectives?

Answer 2

Law & Morality

1- not be used to control morality
someone injured not moral issue.

2- should be used to enforce morality
because private action could have public consequences.

Question 3

drunk driver used for two perspectives

Answer 3

true

Question 4

demographic changes (rural vs urban)

Answer 4

brought DUI into law

Question 5

DUI issue is moral & public nuisance

Answer 5

true

Question 6

marijuana prohibition

Answer 6

marijuana users have sex & will have sex with whites (moral issue) nobody harmed

Question 7

dichotomy whether or not law is universally moral or immoral and/or legal or illegal.

Answer 7

true

Question 8

morals are not universally agreed upon

Answer 8

true

Question 9

law does not represent a universal consensus but law is used to force interests to subordinate class.

Influential people (dominant class) use the law to impose their values on lower class people

Answer 9

true

Question 10

buss, fountain, counter seating (racist laws)

Answer 10

true

Question 11

hate crimes (racist lost control of country)

Answer 11

true

Question 12

people against racist (made laws to oppose racism

Answer 12

true

Question 13

people in power get to decide what is criminal or not

Answer 13

true

Question 14

a lot of problems with victimless crimes

Answer 14

true

Question 15

crimes where nobody was harmed

Answer 15

who is going to report?

Question 16

victimless crimes with beneficiaries

Answer 16

who is going to report?

Question 17

whose going to report crime?

Answer 17

eg “king hall dealer”

Question 18

victimless crimes:

artificially inflates costs; enables organized crime groups to monopolize

Answer 18

true

Question 19

risk & management increases cost

Answer 19

true

Question 20

artificially inflated because its illegal

Answer 20

true

Question 21

can’t go to court or use legal system

Answer 21

true, must take law into their own hands

Question 22

illegal issues need to be handled otherwise

Answer 22

true

Question 23

As a result of artificially inflated costs; people have to commit further crime to pay for illegal substance

Answer 23

true, petty theft, property crimes

Question 24

creating crime with laws that make drugs illegal

Answer 24

true

Question 25

#4 The criminalization of victimless crimes increases the association of non-violent & violent criminals

Answer 25

victimless crime offender & violent offenders go to same institutions. society then gets hardened criminals.

Question 26

Is defining crime a step towards sometimes controlling it?

Answer 26

yes

Question 27

what is meant by liable prosecution

Answer 27

that the law exists to which prosecution and punishment is prescribed.

Question 28

the mere existence of a law instructs what?

Answer 28

how citizens should behave

Question 29

who are the 20th century phil of morality vs enforcers

Answer 29

Hart and Devlin; 18c James Fitzjames & John Stuart

Question 30

what is the only good reason to use "power" over an individual?

Answer 30

to prevent harm to others.

Question 31

Mr. Mill believed law is a proper instrument to regulate morals.

Answer 31

No

Question 32

Mills believed laws are only to be used for what?

Answer 32

To prevent harm to others.

Question 33

Devlin was contrary to Mills?

Answer 33

yes

Question 34

laws are a result of social order that resolves and prevents disputes - are these the origins of law?

Answer 34

yes

Question 35

what is "laws product of consensus?"

Answer 35

natural rules that arise in a society of human.

Question 36

what is "law product of conflict?"

Answer 36

laws that are established based on morality issues.

Question 37

what is the second dimension

Answer 37

the thin line that exists between private and public morality issues.

Question 38

is it said that laws used for moral issues are highly ineffective?

Answer 38

yes

Question 39

what corrupts the controllers

Answer 39

victimless crimes that are reported.

Question 40

what is the only way to respond to crimes of variability?

Answer 40

to conceptualize that crime is a specific instance of a broader range of deviant behavior.

Question 41

Summer, Sutherland, Cressey believe law is an effective tool when it comes to morality?

Answer 41

yes

Question 42

undercover officer could sometimes become sympathetic with criminals

Answer 42

true

Question 43

undercover cons: line their pockets and ?

Answer 43

commit the crimes themselves

Question 44

LA Impact unit Capt.

Answer 44

lined his pockets

Question 45

undercover officers sometimes induce criminal activity

Answer 45

true, entrapment