Decriminalization

In order to increase our understanding of justice in the United States, we can look at how some individual cities contribute to creating their own construction of justice. One of the major distinctions between major cities is the way the police collaborates with their community, for instance the difference between Richmond, California and Baltimore, Maryland. Richmond’s officers have all been mandated to attend community meetings or discussions, while off-duty and when they are on-duty, they…

Weed. Ganja. Dank. These are just some of the street names referencing the “third highest used substance in the world behind alcohol and tobacco, respectively” (Global Drug Survey, 2015). Since the early 20th century, cannabis has been subjected to legal restrictions in numerous parts of the world; Canadian cannabis use and supply has been under strict criminal control since 1923: “with recreational use criminally prohibited under the federal drug-control law” (Controlled Drugs and Substances…

1. There some advantages to using the two-track model of prostitution. The first advantage that they outline is that it would help to put law enforcement officers on bigger areas that are affected by prostitution. Moreover, instead of focusing the time on just taking down street and non-street prostitutes we would just focus our time on the streets since that is the most problematic part of prostitution. Another advantage would be to use community service as a way to get prostitutes off the…

in many parts of the U.S. Though it can be debated that sex work is a unsafe field to work in, the belief that the criminal law are prefaced on are not exactly confirmed with adequate information. Different developments of prostitution like decriminalization or legalization are approved by higher backing and can be claimed to be more fair-minded from a legal front and a communal health point of view. Prostitution should be legalized because evidence shows that it would protect sex workers,…

The current U.S. debt of twenty trillion dollars worries numerous Americans as it appears to only grow each passing day. Reducing or paying off the national debt is an extremely difficult affair as cutting funding appears to be the only option for the United States’ government at the moment. The decision of cutting funds from healthcare, national security, social security, and multiple other programs affects the U.S. population in a highly negative manner. Nonetheless, such actions have been…

positive effects of the decriminalization of marijuana are the fact that it reduces the penalties for first-time possession of a small amount of marijuana for personal use for adults, and violation is not anymore at the level of a crime. Also, States that have decriminalized marijuana can be viewed as Brandeisian called “laboratories of democracy.” Those states will offer the opportunity to federal government and other states to observe changes that the decriminalization has brought since the…

The definition of prostitution in the Oxford Dictionary is defined as “the practice or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment” as well as “the unworthy or corrupt use of one’s talents for the sake of personal or financial gain” (Oxford Dictionaries, 2015). This profession dates back as far as the 18th century BC. Prostitution is a position few seek and is typically the last resort for those who have been excluded from society. While the women who are involved in…

not gone up in Portugal since the law has been up in place but continues to remain one of the lowest in the European Union. This is a great example of how decriminalization can change what is going on in Colombia and perhaps help the people. This book shows that through the data “ judged by virtually every metric, the Portuguese decriminalization framework has been a resounding success.” Instead of sending people to jail putting them in treatment centers or somewhere they feel protective of…

Alliance 4). By taxing the drug, Colorado had a surge of income and the expenses must not have been too large in comparison because, “tax revenue from retail marijuana sales amounted to $40.9 million between January 2014 and October 2014” (“Decriminalization and Legalization” 2). Ten months of increased income for Colorado’s government. If the expenses truly outweighed the tax revenue as suggested, the profits would be negative rather than in the million range as seen here. It is not just pure…

organizations in the world, recently said, “We have seen evidence to suggest that the criminalization of sex work leads to social marginalization and an increased risk of human rights abuses against sex workers. The evidence also suggests that decriminalization could be the best means to protect the rights of sex workers and ensure that these individuals receive adequate medical care, legal assistance and police…