If it's truly victimless, it's not really a crime. It's a made-up crime, such as don't park here between the hours of 12 and 6. Even in these cases, it is often possible to find a victim somethere. For example, if cars are parked along a street night and day, maybe it can't be cleaned properly and gets dirty or the snow can't be removed, and the people who live on the street suffer. If there's a sign that says "Dont walk on the grass" and you walk on the grass, maybe it kills the grass, and the person who owns the property has to pay to have the grass replaced. That sort of thing. But if there is truly no victim, then there is (in my opinion) no real crime. I'm sure Blackstone would agree with me.
However any place where "victimless" crimes of drug dealing, drug use, prostitution or even loitering is allowed becomes a shithole of pimps, petty thieves, zombie addicts and cruising creeps. Property values plummet for miles around, graffiti is everywhere, cars are broken into and stolen. It all becomes Section 8 housing and boarded up store fronts. What was once poor but functional neighborhood becomes a ghetto. That is a crime against society if not against an individual.
Drug dealing is certainly not a victimless crime.
Pfizer execs should be in jail
Depends on your perspective. The guy down the street that will sell you a bit of pot or whatever, who is unknown by most (so no gang attacks on him or whatever) is a victimless crime.. At least, when you are true libertarian type that believes you should have access to things like pot and if you hurt yourself with it, that was your choice.
I dont know. Where drug use is legal the cannibis shops are not surrounded by theives.
In canada the weed bars where u can go and smoke dont seem to have criminal problems.
Countries where prostitution is legal those "red light" areas are typically crawling with cops.
Now where loitering is decriminalized those places are full of homeless and junkies which is typically criminals. So you got something there.
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