What are public order crimes? How do they and their offenders differ from other types? 1. What is the notion of broken windows? How has this been applied in modern policing? 2. Why is prostitution...

What are public order crimes? How do they and their offenders differ from other types?

1. What is the notion of broken windows? How has this been applied in modern policing?

2. Why is prostitution such a persistent crime? What have been some recent trends in prostitution and attempts to regulate it?

3. What do you feel should be the role of society in regulating pornography? Defend your views.

4. Discuss the history of attempts to regulate drug abuse. Do you feel that greater criminalization or decriminalization is required to properly deal with this problem?

5. What is a moral panic, and what are moral entrepreneurs? Give some examples.

6. What are paraphilias? Of what concern are these to the criminal justice system?

7. What was the effect of the Harrison Act of 1914 on drug regulation in the United States?