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Legalization would result in numerous other benefits. Medical marijuana patients would no longer suffer legal limbo or social stigma from using marijuana to treat nausea from chemotherapy, glaucoma, or other conditions. Infringements on civil liberties and racial profiling would decline, since victimless crimes are a key cause of such police behavior. Quality control would improve because sellers could advertise and establish reputations for a consistent product, allowing consumers to choose low or high-potency marijuana...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Miron | Title: Marijuana Legalization in California | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...course, the idea that shoplifting is a victimless crime is easier to believe when the prey involved is a faceless business - or better yet, an international retail chain. In reality, however, shoplifting comes back to bite all consumers in the billfold in the same way that higher plane tickets do when airlines face increasing gas prices. Anytime businesses have to absorb a cost, they pass it along to their clients in some form or another. Retailers make up the money lost to shoplifting by marking up the prices of their goods. According to the Center for Retail Research, this ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recession Sparks Global Shoplifting Spree | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...write that "antiquities trafficking has never been a victimless crime. It certainly is not now when it funds the roadside bombs that kill our troops." How much of this trade from your estimation is being funneled into things that are killing troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stolen-Treasure Hunter Matthew Bogdanos | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...owner around to claim a trespass violation on a repossessed home, it's difficult for them to make arrests. All they can do is tell the squatters to leave, board up the house and ship off a note to the bank that now owns the property. "It's a victimless crime," says Bert Lippert, a bit sarcastically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreclosed Homes: A Local Blight | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...consecutive years. From the start, Rudy challenged the idea that crime is tied to economic distress. Under him, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton implemented two innovative strategies, “broken window” policing and CompStat. “Broken window” policing emphasized arresting those who committed victimless crimes, operating under the assumption that those individuals were most likely to commit violent crimes. CompStat consolidated all data about recent crimes and arrests so that the NYPD could search for crime patterns in given neighborhoods...

Author: By Rohan A. Prasad | Title: Persistence and Innovation: Rudy’s Recipe for Tackling Challenges | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

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