Crimes Compared to Legal Crimes. Term Paper

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Prostitution is sex between two willing adults and one of the adults pays the other adult for that sex.

While it is illegal to be the prostitute or the John it shouldn't be. Both are adults, that is not illegal, both are engaging willingly is sex, that isn't illegal, and one hands the other one money. If the John handed the prostitute money without getting sex, he would not be breaking the law. If the prostitute slept with one man, called him her boyfriend and the only thing he asked is that she maintain her figure and be available for Friday night visits, and in exchange he paid all of her bills it would not be illegal. But if that same woman decides to sleep with a dozen men a month and let them each contribute to her bill fund that makes her a criminal. The bottom line is one John equals boyfriend, more than one John equals a crime.

Sociology dictionaries define victimless crimes as "an activity classified as a crime in the laws of a country, which may therefore be prosecuted by the police or other public authorities, but which appears to have no victim in that there is no individual person who could bring a case for civil damages under civil law. Unlike (say) a case of theft, the damage is to society as a whole, and to notions of morality, proper conduct, and so on. Examples might be drinking alcoholic beverages, reading Marxist literature, homosexuality, gambling, or drug-taking, in societies where such activities are prohibited (Marshall, 1998).

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Another example of legal crime was recently brought to light in India when the son of a royal family announced he is gay. He is breaking the law and can be punished accordingly but it is only a crime because the government says that it is. He has not hurt anyone and there is no victim.

Crimes in which one person takes part and nobody else is involved can in many cases be considered legal crimes. The use of marijuana is a debatable legal crime. Though it is considered a gateway drug, there are many people with medical conditions in which the symptoms are relieved by smoking marijuana, however, the law says they can go to jail for doing so.

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Whether the crime is wrong by moral standards, or wrong because it hurt somebody all crimes are illegal and punishable by law. A prostitute can go to jail for accepting money for sex as easily as a murderer can go to jail for the rape and killing of a five-year-old. The difference seems to be society's changes regarding the law. Society tends to change the laws for legal crimes as society sees fit with the current trends and mindsets, while natural crimes have been illegal for hundreds of years and will remain so until the end of time......

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