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Elements Of Crime In Tennessee

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In Tennessee, all three have been deemed criminal and technically meet some of the seven elements of a crime. However, to what extent is debatable.
Since the inception of our country, we have had a love hate view of gambling, prostitution and drug use. In the early years, these were somewhat accepted as a norm and tolerated. At one time during the 1770’s, all 13 colonies had lotteries to raise revenue (Dunstan, 1997). As our country grew, certain behaviors fell out of the norm and became illegal; drug use, gambling, and prostitution were among those. I surmise that the associated or undesirable behaviors such as increased crime, political corruption, addiction, disease, and organized crime were factors that helped drive certain vices

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