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- Title
The law as public defender: Canadian history as a cautionary tale.
- Authors
Ellis, Desmond
- Abstract
As every Canadian knows, the regulation of filth is endemic in Canada. Less well known is the fact that 'filth allowances' are also endemic in this country. Among sociologists, a `value' (e.g., individual freedom) is a conception of the desirable, of the good. Common values are values held by a majority of Canadians. Within the group of common values one may identify a smaller set of paramount or `core' values. One especially hazardous shoal upon which the Canadian ship of state may founder is male seduction of females generally, but especially the seduction of "female passengers on board vessels" by men who own them, are in charge of them, or simply work on them. The Law, in effect, helps create sexual offenders, and in Canada, so much of the sexual behavior was regulated by law, that only about 20 percent of the adult population would have so carefully and unimaginatively ordered their sexual activity as not to have committed a sexual crime. There are standards of decency and humanity to be preserved. The law should protect the young from exploitation. It should protect all from the use of force and/or fraud used in the service of sexual gratification.
- Subjects
CANADA; SEDUCTION; HUMAN sexuality; PUBLIC defenders; CRIMINAL law; JUSTICE administration
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1978, Vol 3, Issue 3, p367
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3340311