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Victimless crime are those that are of the nature of illegal gambling, drug use, and selling sex, where the victim does not experience harm and is indeed a willing participant. Certain status offense which may include consumption of alcohol, truancy, and running away from home are also victimless crimes. Conflict perspectives hold that victimless crimes are criminal only because politically powerful people or groups find them undesirable or offensive.

Functionalist explanation holds that social need, not social power, underlies the labeling of victimless behavior as criminal under labeling theory. According to some, victimless crimes should not be regulated by criminal law. Victimless crimes are illegal acts in which the only victims are the offenders. Victimless crimes are established for social control over morality and other social relationship and are applied mostly to the lower classes. Victimless crime includes criminal or illegal acts in which all participants are consenting adults.

Victimless crimes are criminal only because politically powerful people or groups find them undesirable or offensive. Examples of victimless crimes include sex crimes, drug use, illegal gambling, sports such as cock fighting. There is an absence of restrictions against elite deviance. The small amount of street crime keeps the focus off of elite deviance. It is easier and more acceptable for upper class people with deviant behavior to engage in victimless crimes.

The classic definition of victimless crime assumes, "There is never a victim" in sex crimes or drug use. A re-examination of consent indicates that people consent under pressure. Victimless crime often does have a victim, but at some level, the harm is self-inflicted.

INSIDER TRADING: THE CASE AGAINST THE VICTIMLESS CRIME HYPOTHESIS- Norman S. Douglas This paper challenges the long held hypothesis that insider trading is a victimless crime.

Blackmail as a Victimless Crime: Reply to Altman- WALTER E. BLOCK, ROBERT W. MCGEE The legal theory of blackmail is the veritable puzzle surrounded by a mystery wrapped in an enigma. The authors maintain that since it is legal to gossip, it should therefore not be against the law to threaten to gossip, unless paid off not to do so. In a word, blackmail is a victimless crime, and must be legalized, if justice is to be attained.

Are Victimless Crimes Actually Harmful?- Louis Veneziano, Carol Veneziano A victimless crime is an illegal act that is a consensual crime and lacks a complaining participant, including such activities as drug use, gambling and prostitution. No one is harmed, or if harm occurs, it is negated by the informed consent of willing participants.

Software Piracy is not a victimless crime Many people, industries and economies are being affected as a direct result of the growing problem of software piracy. In this essay, the authors make a closer examination into software piracy to see what it is, how big it is, who the victims of software piracy are and how they are affected by it.

American Holocaust: The Price of Victimless Crime Laws - Tim O'Donnell In the United States, victimless crime laws are used almost exclusively for morality control, that is, a politically correct way of describing religious persecution. The devastation that has been wrought by the victimless crime laws in the United States is detailed in American Holocaust.

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