Is society greatly impacted by “victimless” crimes?
“Victimless” crimes entail some voluntary act on both perpetrators of the crime. That, in and of itself, is not a great impact on society. The ancillary effects are of great impact. Prostitution, drug use and other crimes generally thought to be without a true victim do, however, detrimental to society. The health care of the drug user, the violent crime associated with drug marketing, robberies by prostitutes, the murder of prostitutes are not a part of the actual crime, but absent the victimless crime the others would not occur. Strong arguments for decriminalization.
