Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-2] of 2 Edwin M. Schur quotesEdwin M. Schur QuotesEdwin M. Schur [When a victimless criminal] is treated as an enemy of society, he almost necessarily becomes one. Forced into criminal acts, immersed in underworld-related supply networks, and ever-conscious of the need to evade the police, his outlooks as well as behavior become more and more anti-social.~ Edwin M. Schur The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.~ Edwin M. Schur Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print