Victimless Crime in the United States
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See Also
Abortion; Alcohol and Crime: The Prohibition Experiment; Civil and Criminal Divide; Criminal Law Reform: Current Issues in the United States; Criminalization and Decriminalization; Drugs and Crime: Legal Aspects; Entrapment; Gambling; Homosexuality and Crime; Juvenile Status Offenders; Obscenity and Pornography: Behavioral Aspects; Police: Policing Complainantless Crimes; Prostitution; Sex Offenses: Consensual; Vagrancy and Disorderly Conduct.
VICTIMLESS CRIME.
Further Reading (Books)
Dripps, Donald A. “The Liberal Critique of the Harm Principle.” Criminal Justice Ethics 17 (summer/fall 1998): 3_18.
Feinberg, Joel. The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law. 4 vols. Vol. 1, Harm to Others (1984); Vol. 2, Offense to Others (1985); Vol. 3, Harm to Self (1986); Vol. 4, Harmless Wrongdoing (1988). New York: Oxford University Press, 1984_1988.
Kessler, Raymond G. “Enforcement Problems of Gun Control: A Victimless Crimes Analysis.” Criminal Law Bulletin 16 (1980): 131_149.
Morris, Norval, and Hawkins, Gordon J. The Honest Politician’s Guide to Crime Control. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Oaks, Dallin H. “The Popular Myth of the Victimless Crime.” University of Chicago Law Alumni Journal (1975): 3_14.
Packer, Herbert L. The Limits of the Criminal Sanction. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1968.
Roach, Kent. “Four Models of the Criminal Process.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 89 (1999): 671_716.
Schur, Edwin M. Crimes without Victims: Deviant Behavior and Public Policy Abortion, Homosexuality, Drug Addiction. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965.
Schur, Edwin M., and Bedau, Hugo Adam. Victimless Crimes: Two Sides of a Controversy. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1974.
Smith, Wendy Serbin. Victimless Crime: A Selected Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, 1977.
Wertheimer, Alan. “Victimless Crimes.” Ethics 87 (1977): 302_318.
Further Reading (Articles)
The strange case of the ‘victimless crime’, The Scotsman; May 29, 2001; Leader
Right to Choose Lost to War on ‘Victimless Crime’, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); May 4, 2001
Victimless Crimes, VideoHound’s Golden Movie Retriever; January 1, 2008
Reconsidering Victimless Crime, Regulation; September 22, 2008; Leef, George C.
Overturning a victimless ‘crime’, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA); April 16, 2010; Terry Goggin
Counterfeiting – the Perceived Victimless Crime, Mondaq Business Briefing; June 7, 2012
This Man Says Child Porn Is a ‘Victimless Crime’. He’s a LAWYER; Fury at Perv Court Case Claim, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); December 8, 2004
Victimless crime? It’s a myth Victimless crime? It’s a myth.(Local), The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); March 14, 2008
Prostitution a ‘victimless crime’? Not according to its victims ; A governor who failed to govern himself points out a problem our culture is failing to address., Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME); March 14, 2008; M.D. Harmon staff columnist
‘VICTIMLESS CRIME’ ROW.(News), The Mirror (London, England); December 8, 2004
Did Jacksons commit victimless crimes?, The Herald News – Joliet (IL); June 19, 2013
This Man Says Child Porn Is a ‘Victimless’ Crime.He’s a LAWYER; Outrage at Defence Case, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); December 8, 2004
CRIMES VICTIMLESS, Post-Tribune (IN); August 4, 1991
Lawyer’s child porn defence provokes outrage; Crime labelled ‘victimless’, The Herald; December 8, 2004; Billy Briggs and Grant McCabe
NO CRIME VICTIMLESS, Post-Tribune (IN); August 14, 1991
EDITORIAL : THE REAL VICTIM; COUNCILWOMAN GOLDBERG’S CONTENTION THAT DRUG ABUSE IS A “VICTIMLESS” CRIME IS PREPOSTEROUS.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial), Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); September 25, 1997
WERE ROSTY’S CRIMES REALLY VICTIMLESS?, Post-Tribune (IN); June 13, 1994
Corruption is not a victimless crime, New Straits Times; June 10, 2007; Tunku Abdul Aziz
Prostitution Can Be Turned Into Victimless Crime, Chicago Sun-Times; September 4, 1995
Final Fleiss Arguments ; `Victimless Crime’ vs. `Criminal Enterprise’, The Washington Post; November 29, 1994