Sentences with phrase «from victimless»

Far from a victimless crime perpetuated against bloated corporations, insurance fraud reaches into the lives of everyday citizens.

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And just as ascetics and Romantic poets were in the past reluctant to let their suffering go (it paid off in spiritual or aesthetic currency), so many contemporary victims have learned not to let their victimization go (having gained self - definition from it, a victimless condition becomes unthinkable).
Actually, when stories like those referred to above come to the fore it is clear that the sexualisation of our society is far from being a victimless phenomenon.
«Contrary to the defendant's argument that his crime was victimless,» the U.S. attorney's office added, «the people of the State of New York are victims whenever, as here, an elected official abuses the trust the public placed in him by accepting secret payoffs from lobbyists and by covering up his conduct.»
«But we shouldn't pretend that it is somehow victimless and hence fundamentally different from personal taxation.
The reader must be careful not to infer from the absence of a checkmark that the authority listed would necessarily exclude the offense in question from the category of victimless crimes.
True, the main interest of the concept of victimless crimes derives from its usefulness in decriminalization proposals.
Moreover, many of the misdeeds have been traditionally looked at as «victimless» crimes, a flawed concept but one not much different from societal view on speeding or marijuana use.
«It can result in escalating consequences arising from what may begin as relatively minor and victimless offending.»
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