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TO PROSECUTE OR NOT TO PROSECUTE (FROM POLICE WE DESERVE, 1973 BY J. C. ALDERSON AND PHILIP J. STEAD - SEE NCJ-25835)

NCJ Number
25838
Author(s)
L BLOM-COOPER
Date Published
1973
Length
1 page
Annotation
RECOGNIZING THAT THE POLICE DO AND PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE WIDE DISCRETIONARY POWERS CONCERNING THE SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS, THE AUTHOR SUGGESTS SOME TYPES OF PROSCRIBED BEHAVIOR THAT SHOULD BE DECRIMINALIZED.
Abstract
THESE AREAS ARE VICTIMLESS CRIMES, SEXUAL OFFENSES AND CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC MORALITY. SOME OF THE SPECIFIC CRIMES ALLUDED TO ARE GAMING HOMOSEXUALITY, INCEST, AND PORNOGRAPHY.

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