victimless crime
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvictimlessandcrime
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victimless
adjective
uk/ˈvɪk.tɪm.ləs/us/ˈvɪk.təm.ləs/
In a victimless crime no one suffers directly, sometimes because the people affected by the crime have agreed to take part ...
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crime
noun
uk/kraɪm/us/kraɪm/
illegal ...
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(Definition ofvictimlessandcrimefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is not avictimlesscrime.
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The proposal recreates avictimlesscrime.
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It is thevictimlesscrimeargument.
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Burglary is never avictimlesscrime.
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Burglary is not avictimlesscrime.
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This was not avictimlesscrime.
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He observed that insider dealing was "avictimlesscrime".
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It is a crime, albeit avictimlesscrime.
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The offence of disorderly conduct is not avictimlesscrime.
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Similarly, many who are convicted of corporate fraud probably think of that as avictimlesscrime.
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It is not avictimlesscrime; it is also about poor people being ripped off.
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Shoplifting is not avictimlesscrime, as countless shop workers will testify.
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We must remember that social security fraud is not avictimlesscrime.
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Taking that money, without a democratic mandate, is not avictimlesscrime.
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We must face up to the illusion that drug-taking is avictimlesscrime.
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Also, the ludicrous idea that drug-taking is avictimlesscrimehas been abandoned.
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I find it difficult to envisage the concept of avictimlesscrime.
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Sometimes it is suggested that drug trafficking is avictimlesscrime.
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The attitude that speeding is okay—avictimlesscrimealmost—needs to be challenged and changed.
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Thus, public order crime includes consensual crime andvictimlesscrime.
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When police resources are directed tovictimlesscrimethey are removed, of course, from crimes where there are victims.
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Far from being avictimlesscrimeit is adding significantly to industry costs and inhibiting technological development.
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There are those too who say that insider trading is somehow unimportant because it is avictimlesscrime.
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