Sentences with phrase «victimless crimes»

Where do these documents state that victimless crimes are not allowed to be legislated?

Paul is now charged for victimless crimes related to sales of just about a pound of marijuana over the course of a few months.

Finally, it is important to keep distinct the class of victimless crimes and the class of offenses thought to deserve decriminalization.

True, the main interest of the concept of victimless crimes derives from its usefulness in decriminalization proposals.

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.

The program is typically used for crimes that don't involve violence and «victimless crimes.»

A libertarian would reply: «Relax, these are victimless crimes and it's none of your business.»

In the case of so called victimless crimes where sin occurs, the victim is the sinner.

«A criminal convicted of aggravated grievous bodily harm will walk away with a lesser sentence than many of those convicted of what I believe to be victimless crimes.»

Crime Inc. goes inside the entertainment industry to meet some of the people losing their livelihood to piracy and also follows law enforcement trying to crack down on this seemingly victimless crime.

Part of the problem, naturally, is that those who engage in «underground» transactions may tell themselves that it's a victimless crime.

Blasphemy is a victimless crime, since gods do not exist.

That's ok... I choose not to spend eternity with a god who sends his «children» to hell, for the victimless crime of «not believing».

Using your god's name as a curse word is a victimless crime.

By declaring that it was unnecessary to decide when human life begins, and by refusing to inquire into what or, more precisely, who is being killed when the woman exercises her «right to choose,» the Court made it possible to pretend that abortion was in effect a victimless crime.

Busting gambling rings is labor - intensive work for law - enforcement agencies, and there's little chance that those apprehended and found guilty will receive heavy penalties since much of the public considers gambling a victimless crime.

But where's the justice in getting imprisoned for 10 years or whatever for smoking weed or any other victimless crime for that matter?

Memo to our friend Buster: if prostitution is such a victimless crime, how come Eliot Spitzer wanted to pass tougher laws against those prostitutes and the John Doe's who purchased their time like Spitzer himself?

Prostitution is not a victimless crime.

What drives fraudulent behaviour and how can the industry change the current perception that insurance fraud is a victimless crime?

ABI Fraud Conference, in Partnership with Ordnance Survey, will provide an opportunity for senior fraud practitioners to come together and discuss key insurance fraud issues including government anti-fraud strategy, regulatory changes, and the perception of insurance fraud as a victimless crime.

Tax evasion is not a victimless crime.

For a glaring example of how corruption is not a victimless crime, and how money in politics can hurt ordinary citizens, look no further than Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers.

Prisons are not full of offenders sentenced for drug possession, licence fee evasion or petty, victimless crime.

«Generally speaking, I found that greening was more prevalent where violent crime, property crime and victimless crime were going down,» said Sadler, an assistant professor of public health in the College of Human Medicine.

This is victimless crime.

In Talk Talk, which follows Drop City and The Inner Circle, he delves deep into the modern - day nightmare of the «victimless crime» of identity theft.

This is not a «victimless crime».

That the SEC is more worried about catching Martha Stewart trading on day early (a victimless crime that actually made the market more efficient, and helped reduce losses for unknowing buyers of ImClone that day) than it is about catching real fraud or protecting shareholders ownership rights?

That's when we got out when the knuckleheads started showing up wanting to buy dogs and do all sorts of criminal activity we never did any criminal activity except maybe for betting, but of course that is a victimless crime.

Faking a service dog is illegal and often thought of as a victimless crime.

Voluntary euthanasia happens whether or not it is legal; it is at present a victimless crime.

So scientific overconfidence seems to be a victimless crime, with the only «victim» being science itself.

Extreme fuel exploitation is a not a victimless crime.

Contrary to most thinking, white collar crime is not a victimless crime.

Insurance fraud is certainly not a victimless crime, and since the cost of fraud has to be covered by raising premiums, innocent and honest consumers are the ones who end up paying the price.

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

The counselors told me there is no cure, but there is «treatment» to try to teach them how to handle their urges, etc., and that in regard to child molestation, it is a «victimless crime».

Not exact matches

«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.»

Their essential scumbaggery is duly punished with symbolic prison sentences which help to perpetuate the myth that white collar crime is victimless, even when the film shows that it clearly isn't.

Packer's discussion of bribery and espionage shows that even if these two crimes are victimless in some sense or other, it would still be unreasonable to recommend that bribery and espionage cease to be punishable offenses.

Let us begin by noticing the first warning sign of conceptual and theoretical trouble ahead: the authorities do not agree among themselves as to which crimes are victimless.

«White collar crime is anything but victimless.

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.

The absence of a complaining witness leads some to refer to drug crimes as «victimless.»