LAW 7174 - Criminal Regulation of Vice

2 to 3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: LAW 5020 and LAW 7165 (concurrent enrollment in LAW 7165 permissible).
Description
This is an elective course. In the United States, federal and state governments have used criminal law to regulate drugs, alcohol, commercial sex, and gambling. This advanced criminal law/procedure seminar will focus on these and other so-called “vice crimes.” The course will explore the legal, political, and theoretical aspects of criminalizing vice. Topics may include the historical and contemporary debates about morality and harm that have surrounded vice’s criminalization; the implications of vice enforcement for police authority and civil rights; and vice enforcement’s disparate racial consequences.