Prohibitionists had thought that it would decrease drunkenness in America and thereby decrease the crime rate. ... Serious crimes such as homicides, assault, and battery, increase nearly 13 percent, and other various crimes rose by 9 percent. ... One of the main contributing factors to the sudden increase of felonies was the introduction of organized crime. ... Crime became so organized because the criminal groups organized around a steady source of income, which was provided by the law against the victimless crime of consuming alcohol. ... That event is just one example of how prohibition...

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Higgins, tests a somewhat new and foreign area of crime: cyber crime. ... The researchers noted that digital piracy is a crime in which the victim is not visible. This leads to a sense that digital piracy is a "victimless crime.... The first hypothesis Higgins and Morris's tested was confirmed: social learning theory is a universal theory of crime, for it has measured street crime adequately and it is now proven applicable to cyber crime. ... Digital piracy, because it is a cyber crime, is unlike many other types of deviance. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate