The effects consensual crimes have on the world are meager. ... The alleged crimes described do not directly effect another human being("Should all victimless crimes be made legal?"... My primary audience is law makers who put many people behind bar for harmless crimes. ... The tentative argument is victimless crimes do not effect other people. ... As result many people's taxes are being used to fund prisons and those who are arrested for consensual crimes are being held in a facility along with a number of murderers("Victimless Crimes", 2003). ...

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Victimless crimes are simply defined as a crime having no victim. I believe the laws against victimless crimes are not direct threats to the privacy of individuals. ... These crimes erode the systems of ethics" and morals in the fabric of our society. I must point out that while I agree with many of the laws against victimless crimes I do not agree with them all. ... Victimless crimes may not show any immediate victim but over time society as a whole is the victim. ...

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Gambling is not victimless. ... Researchers have found that gamblers are for more likely to commit crimes, run up large debts, and kill themselves. The debt, crime, and suicides associated with problem gambling have its costs. ... Gambling will cost taxpayers millions of dollars more for crimes committed by gamblers. Crime is just a small part of the total cost. ...

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- Don't you agree that a individual should be entitled to make his/her own decisions. Sure some of the decisions we make in our life might effect our health, but you should have the right to do what u want to do, as long as your not harming anyone else. This brings me to my first argument on why I ...

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Like drinking, drug use, prostitution, and sex, abortion is a victimless crime. ... Schur argues " the laws against abortion points up some of the major consequences of attempting to legislate against the crimes without victims."... (qtd.in Sykes) Unenforceable laws have little affect on people's behaviors, but do lead to crime and corruption. ...

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Abstract White collar crime in a nutshell is lying, cheating and stealing. ... White collar crime is not a victimless crime; a single scam can destroy a company and devastate vulnerable families by wiping out their life savings, or cost investors billions of dollars. ... Edwin Sutherland initially coined the term 'white-collar crime'. White collar crime refers to crimes that are committed by respectable business people during the course of the occupation. Crimes which are considered white-collar include embezzling, price fixing, insider buying, and fraud, falsification of expense ac...

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Marijuana prohibition has led to larger percentage of organized crime and gang violence. ... With the criminalizing of marijuana the prison systems has been clogged with hundreds of thousands of people for doing a victimless crime. ... If marijuana was legalized crime rate will decrease. Current marijuana laws now do the opposite of lowering crime rates. ... It is a case of history repeating from the alcohol prohibition days when organized crime got its funds from the selling of alcohol. ...

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Prohibition was meant to reduce the consumption of alcohol, seen by some as the devil's advocate, and by this to reduce crime, poverty, death rates, and improve the economy and the quality of life. National prohibition of alcohol, the "noble experiment", was undertaken to have less crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America (Thorton). ... The Prohibition amendment of the 1920s backfired because it was unenforceable, it caused the explosive growth of crime, and it increased the amount of a...

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Millie was right about the reason that girls got involved with pimps according to class notes from the Victimless Crime course pimps prey on vulnerable women and the women typically take the pimps as their family. ...

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