Victimless crime
A victimless crime is an infraction of criminal law without any identifiable evidence of an individual that has suffered damage in the infraction. Typical examples include violations of laws concerning public decency or public order, and include the sale, possession, and use of illicit drugs, prostitution, trafficking in pornography, and gambling. These laws are based on the offense principle, as opposed to laws based on the harm principle.
The term is not used in jurisprudence, but is rather used to cast doubt onto the efficacy of existing and proposed legislation; or to highlight the unintended consequences of the same. In politics, for example, a lobbyist might use this word with the implication that the law in question should be abolished.
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