Law Enforcement

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the advantages of shifting the emphasis of law enforcement onto crime prevention rather than crime control. It describes situations where the public might call the police despite no crime having been committed. This might include calling the police for traffic control, for neighborhood disputes, as security consultants and for outreach in communities to help educate young people and the community about crime prevention. The paper also looks into vice crimes.

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"Each type of prostitution comes with a differing set of difficulties for crime prevention and enforcement. The public would likely be more concerned about the nature of streetwalking as it is public evidence of vice crime, which does not meet the desires and or needs of everyone and intones a seedy side of the public arena, including the possibility of other street crime taking place in such locations. Public expectations, would then be great to stop such behavior and for the police to increase presence to do so. The streetwalker might be easier to find, as their work leaves them in a publicly vulnerable situation, call systems of prostitution are much harder to prevent and create effective enforcement around. The validity of street crime being increased by streetwalking is well documented, as when an individual seeks out such a service they are often delving into a situation where much more is readily available and other crime often proliferates such areas, while call girls (or boys) would have to be associated with other crime and make it available to a John through other means or vice versa."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Connelly, M. T. (1980). The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
• Katyal, N. K. (1993). Men Who Own Women: A Thirteenth Amendment Critique of Forced Prostitution. Yale Law Journal, 103(3), 791-826.
• Vila, B. & Morris, C. (Eds.). (1999). The Role of Police in American Society A Documentary History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

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