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How criminalizing minor offenses can mean there is less of a deterrent for people to commit more serious crimes.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Mungan, Murat C. |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Those convicted of a crime are often punished twice; once via the legal system’s formal sanction, and again through the stigma of having a criminal record. Murat C. Mungan argues that the criminalization of many small offenses – such as drug possession – means that this stigma is becoming diluted for more serious criminal offenses. If a large percentage of the population is branded as criminals, he writes, this means that having a criminal record becomes less of marker of a person’s character, no matter if that crime is minor or severe. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/68730/1/blogs.lse.ac.uk-How%20criminalizing%20minor%20offenses%20can%20mean%20there%20is%20less%20of%20a%20deterrent%20for%20people%20to%20commit%20more%20seri.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
