Do you believe that some crimes have no victims? If so, which ones?

Answer 1

Any Crime where you do not deprive anyone else of Life, Liberty, or Property. Here are some examples:

Prostitution

Drug Use

suicide

Gambling

Not having the proper building permit to work on your own land.

Speeding (any speed) on a Freeway
Speeding less than 10 over on most Roads
(Speed limits are arbitrary numbers picked by politicians)

Removing those annoying stickers from your car visor.

There are so many others but they are all along these lines.

Answer 2

Somewhere, somehow, someone is a victim.

Speeding, I get cut off every day at least two or three times by those great drivers and at least once a week the encounter is close enough that I have to brake hard to prevent an accident with this great driver. If I am forced into that situation by a speeder and get hit, the speeder will never know they caused an accident.

I assume the desk the lady is speaking of is school, library or other public property because if it's her desk there is no crime. That said, I am the victim, my taxes paid for that desk.

Prostitution destroys marriages like heII won't have. The kids are victims if no one else.

We have a bunch of former pot heads in the US Congress, again, I'm the victim. The everyday Joe schmuck on the street.

Just like a property crime is not worth defending against (so the law says) my stolen car cost me $20,000. At $20 an hour that means I worked 1000 hours to get that car, that is roughly 1/2 a year. If I were held in involuntary servitude for that time period and forced to work would someone consider that a crime.

All crimes have victims.

Answer 3

Removing the tag from the mattress is not
a crime for the end user. It is the manufacturer,
distributor and retailer that must not remove the
tag.

To answer your question, there shouldn't be but
laws are made by people. Sometimes they error
and the courts strike the law down.

Remember Rosa Parks?
She broke a law. The law she broke resulted in
people becoming victims, so she had the
bravery to break that bad law. This triggered
events that resulted in the bad law being changed.
It's called civil disobedience.

Answer 4

A Victimless Crime, also known as Consensual Crime, is any activity which does not physically harm a person or property, or to which was in fact consented and is currently illegal if based on statutory laws.

More than 350,000 people are currently in US jails for consensual crimes. An additional 1,500,000 are on parole or probation for such crimes. More than 4 million will be arrested in any year for committing such crimes. Our governments will spend more than $50 billion in punishing people for ‘crimes’ that do not physically harm the person or property of another. An additional $150 billion will be lost in tax revenue.

Some areas are: Health ‘protection’ crimes: Drug prohibition, seat belt laws, motorcycle helmet laws, bans on bungee jumping (or similar activities) and suicide and assisted suicide prohibitions.

Then there are the "Youth Protection Laws." They include curfews, clothing restrictions in schools, alcohol and tobacco prohibition, prohibition on sales of sexually explicit material, and parental notification.

That's just a few.

Answer 5

Define crimes and define victims, because there's certainly a difference between a theft and a murder, a rich person and a poor one; a popular person and an anonymous one.

I'd say the ones on the upper end of the scale are less of the victims because they're just further up; but that's my underdog bias showing- I am not ashamed.

Tax the rich! (stealing included.)

Answer 6

Yes of course. There are many crimes that may have no victims, but in essence are still bad. Here are a few I could come up with:

Use of drugs (alcohol, tobacco, coffee, marijuana, opiates, etc)

Prostitution
Homosexuality
Suicide
Abortion
Gambling
Exhibitionism

Although, these are a few, and I do not personally consider all of the above "crimes persay..." It is all a matter of personal opinion..

Answer 7

I believe that a crime committed purely to bring justice to those that our justice system cannot bring it to, such as a rapist or child molester that walked on a technicality, those crimes have no victim, only due justice.

Answer 8

Criminals killing each other, as long as its only drug dealers and gang-bangers killing each other shouldn't be a crime, after all, us taxpayers would save money not having our taxes spent putting them in prison, and they're certainly not victims.

Answer 9

No. If no one loses, it is hard to see how a crime could have been committed.

Answer 10

Every crime has a victim, whether the victim is someone other than the person committing the crime or the perpetrators themselves.