User:Dogsgomoo/NotesReViceUnits

Just some rambling notes. There's a lot of 'original research here' and not much substance at the moment. There's a very strong danger of not meeting any neutrality criteria. How does one avoid POV when it comes to morals when the very nature of morality police is to enforce a specific point of view as to what is right and what is wrong.

Vice Unit / Morality Police

 * It seems there used to be a page called 'Vice unit' but it no longer exists and redirects go to 'Vice'. Which is a page that outlines vices solely from a religious perspective and not a criminal perspective.


 * 'Morality police' redirects to the Mutaween. A well known example of morality police but they aren't the only one. What seems needed is a page that outlines the term Vice Unit (and Morality police) and classifies groups that would fit this definitions according to the vice they are meant to combat.


 * Sorted also by whether they are an official government group or a civil/religious group such as the Chastity Patrols in Israel.


 * There are a number of well known "vice units" that have historically been tasked (amongst other things) with protecting the social and cultural fabric as defined by a moral authority. As in, these aren't crimes that simply violate laws but ones that violate specific moral edicts. These groups have traditionally been tasked with seeking out and detaining/arresting/investigating/punishing vices.


 * Certain units of the Stasi played this role, as did the Gestapo.


 * The Mutaween, as mentioned before, do so in Iran. Explicitly and independently.


 * One could expand the term to include the DEA and most Drug Enforcement Units (that term redirects to an actor/character in a TV show.)


 * Would the House Un-American Activities Committee qualify? Or am I casting too wide a net? Obviously there's a gradient present. Committees, patrols. etc etc


 * Also, how far back does one go? Witch-hunts. Feeding people to the lions? Modern Vice Units and historical Vice Units? Modern witch-hunts?


 * Also, think about specific units within police forces that deal with issues of vice and morality? Drug Unit, Moral Unit, Gambling Unit etc etc

Pages looked at that inspired me to jot these notes down

 * 1) Vice Unit and Vice Squad redirects to Vice
 * 2) Morality Police redirects to Mutaween
 * 3) Drug Enforcement Unit redirects to Cedric Daniels
 * 4) Vice Police redirects to Mutaween

To review

 * Moral panic
 * Moral entrepreneur
 * Crime
 * Vice
 * Morals
 * Public order crime
 * Victimless crime
 * Social order
 * History of criminal justice
 * Criminal Code