TY - BOOK ID - 77871757 TI - Sin no more AU - Dombrink, John AU - Hillyard, Daniel PY - 2007 SN - 081478514X 0814720242 9780814720240 9780814785140 9780814719886 0814719880 9780814719893 0814719899 PB - New York New York University Press DB - UniCat KW - Social ethics. KW - Social problems KW - Social values KW - Ethics KW - Sociology KW - Reform, Social KW - Social reform KW - Social welfare KW - Social history KW - Applied sociology KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - United States KW - Moral conditions. KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Social ethics KW - Moral conditions 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. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77871757 AB - Read the Authors' Op-Ed on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Sin 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. ER -