Crimes Without Victims
Subtitle: Deviant Behavior and Public Policy - Abortion, Homosexuality, Drug Addiction
By: [by] Edwin M. Schur.
Series: A Spectrum book, S-111
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780131929302
Subjects: Crimes without victims -- United States; Abortion
Description: This book probes three social problems, raising fundamental questions about the definition of "deviance" and "crime." Each problem involves the willing exchange between consenting individuals of a desired product or service proscribed by law. This book shows that such laws, because there is no complaining victim, are unenforceable. Their very existence gives rise to secondary pathology, abortion rackets, blackmail, police corruption, and drug dealing. The author analyzes the impact of unrealistic laws on deviant behavior, and evaluates proposals for reforming these laws.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.