Some crimes against morality, and hence, the public, are called victimless crimes
Some crimes against morality, and hence, the public, are called victimless crimes because the people who engage in them (gambling, prostitution, and the use of illicit drugs) ostensibly do so consensually.
Author R. F. Geis writes “Those who favor criminalization of such behaviors insist most fundamentally that all societies need to enforce a common morality and that such behavior fall inside the limits of what should be permitted by law. They further maintain that these behaviors inflict harm on those who engage in them, and that a decent society has the obligation to protect its less careful members from their own self-destructive impulses.”
A common expression is “you can’t legislate morality,” which means if people are generally predisposed to behave in a morally repulsive manner, no law enacted by a legislative body will instill an inner moral compass. Do you agree that society cannot “legislate morality?”
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