VICTIMLESS CRIMES

Governmental Interference in Victimless Crimes

Governmental Interference in Victimless Crimes

Introduction

The debate on the relevance of governmental interference in victimless crimes such as prostitution and other sexual activity between consenting adults still remains unresolved. This discussion will attempt to highlight the relevance in governmental interference in victimless crimes such as prostitution and other sexual activity between consenting adults. The discussion will attempt to show that government intervention can have a productive and positive impact in this regard.

Discussion

Victimless crime is a form of crime in which is illegal since it is a violation of the legal framework but does not violate another individual's rights. This can include situations where the perpetrator is a lone individual as well as scenarios where the perpetrator is assisted by one or more accomplices. Modern day social structures are guarded by a set of legal frameworks that seek to prevent the violation of law and order (Aini, et al.). However, victimless crime remains a crack in the system that is often the subject of heated debate and discussion.

The term victimless crime refers to the violations of criminal law without any individual who has suffered damage identifiable in such violation (the victim). Usually include violations of laws relating to public decency, public drunkenness, illegal drug use, gambling and pornography in varying degrees, vagrancy and public nudity, among others, often associated with banning or restricting agreements between consenting adults (Mendes, et al.).

A crime (tort or tort) is a violation of law, and not always a person or group of persons identified as victims, but also can include, for example, the preparations that have not resulted in damage (mens rea in the absence of actus reus) and attempt to commit a crime , crimes against legal persons as opposed to natural persons or persons, or against the commons, as the social order , the social contract or the actual state , as on tax evasion and tax avoidance , treason , or, in non-secular, betrayal of what supernatural (religious law violations) (Martin and Copeland).

Victimless crimes are a concept of libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism, as in the "harm principle" of John Stuart Mill; "victimless" is a position that considers the individual as the sole sovereign, excluding organisms abstract as a community or a State against which they can address criminal offenses. In a society democratic , broad agreement on a particular passage of the law as a "victimless crime" may eventually lead to the abolition of the law, as was the case with most laws regarding homosexuality or sodomy laws, abolished in most democratic countries into the twentieth century, and to a lesser extent prostitution (allowed, but limited form) (Janssen). More limited are the legalization of euthanasia (legal in Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Albania) and consumption of cannabis (varies by country).

Victimless crimes such as prostitution and other sexual activity between consenting adults have been present since time immemorial (Taylor). Attempts to prevent the incidence of such crimes remain unfruitful. However, there is little doubt in the fact that the incidence of such ...