Free compare and contrast essay examples

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Let us begin by noticing the first warning sign of conceptual and theoretical trouble ahead: the authorities do not agree among themselves as to which crimes are victimless. Edwin Schur, as we noted earlier, initially singled out under this rubric only the crimes of abortion, homosexuality, and drug addiction. The criminologist Jerome Skolnick mentioned private fighting and crimes of vice, such as gambling and smoking marijuana, narcotics, abortion, homosexuality, and prostitution. The jurist Herbert Packer identified fornication, gambling, and narcotic offenses as victimless crimes, but he also mentioned bribery and espionage in this category. Norval Morris, criminologist and jurist, cited drunks, addicts, loiterers, vagrants, prostitutes and gamblers as persons who commit crimes without victims; he explicitly excluded abortion from his list, although in his book with Gordon Hawkins, abortion was equally explicitly included among the crimes which "lack victims".

For the sake of summary and easy comparison, Table I lists the range of criminal offenses which the authorities we have discussed have identified as victimless crimes.While this table omits the views of many others who have written on this subject with equal authority, it is representative and will suffice for our purposes. The reader must be careful not to infer from the absence of a checkmark that the authority listed would necessarily exclude the offense in question from the category of victimless crimes. This is particularly true in regard to the obviously related activities described here as "drug addiction," "marijuana use" and "narcotic use." All that may be inferred from such absence is that the offense was not explicitly discussed or described as a victimless crime in the source cited. Thus, much of the apparent disagreement in these lists is owing to nothing more than selective discussion and illustration. Finally, it is important to keep distinct the class of victimless crimes and the class of offenses thought to deserve decriminalization. True, the main interest of the concept of victimless crimes derives from its usefulness in decriminalization proposals. The two concepts, however, only intersect; neither coincides with nor includes the other. Packer's discussion of bribery and espionage shows that even if these two crimes are victimless in some sense or other, it would still be unreasonable to recommend that bribery and espionage cease to be punishable offenses.