TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dombrink,John
AU  - Hillyard,Daniel
TI  - Sin No More: From Abortion to Stem Cells, Understanding Crime, Law, and Morality in America 
SN  - 9780814719886
AV  - HN90.M6 
U1  - 170.973 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - More
KW  - abortion
KW  - assisted
KW  - cell
KW  - disputed
KW  - examination
KW  - gambling
KW  - issues
KW  - legalized
KW  - morally
KW  - most
KW  - offers
KW  - politically
KW  - research
KW  - rights
KW  - some
KW  - stem
KW  - suicide
KW  - time
KW  - vivid
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Read the Authors' Op-Ed on the Seattle Post-IntelligencerSin No More offers a vivid examination of some of the most morally and politically disputed issues of our time: abortion, gay rights, assisted suicide, stem cell research, and legalized gambling. These are moral values issues, all of which are hotly, sometimes violently, contested in America. The authors cover these issues in depth, looking at the nature of efforts to initiate reforms, to define constituencies, to mobilize resources, to frame debates, and to shape public opinion-all in an effort to achieve social change, create, or re-write legislation. Of the issues under scrutiny only legalized gambling has managed to achieve widespread acceptance despite moral qualms from some.Sin No More seeks to show what these laws and attitudes tell us about Americans' approach to law and morality, and about our changing conceptions of sin, crime and illegality. Running through each chapter is a central tension: that American attitudes and laws toward these victimless crimes are going through a process of normalization. Despite conservative rhetoric the authors argue that the tide is turning on each of these issues, with all moving toward acceptance, or decriminalization, in society. Each issue is at a different point in terms of this acceptance, and each has traveled different roads to achieve their current status
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ER  -