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  2. Victimless crime - Wikipedia

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    A victimless crime is an illegal act that typically either directly involves only the perpetrator or occurs between consenting adults. [1] Because it is consensual in nature, whether there involves a victim is a matter of debate.

  3. Status offense - Wikipedia

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    [1] The United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines, for instance, states that a juvenile status offense is a crime which cannot be committed by an adult. [2] For example, possession of a firearm by a minor, by definition, cannot be done by an adult. In some states, the term "status offense" does not apply to adults at all; according to Wyoming ...

  4. Crime - Wikipedia

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    The exact definition of crime is a philosophical issue without an agreed upon answer. Fields such as law, politics, sociology, and psychology define crime in different ways. [6] Crimes may be variously considered as wrongs against individuals, against the community, or against the state. [7]

  5. White-collar crime - Wikipedia

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    This idea also ties into Forbes' third theory, that most stock traders see unethical practices as harmless. Many see white-collar crime as a victimless crime, which is not necessarily true. Since many of these stock traders cannot see the victims of their crimes, it seems as if it hurts no one.

  6. Honolulu police officer gets community service for insurance ...

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    Circuit Judge Ronald Johnson sentenced a Honolulu police officer today to 100 hours of community service and a deferral of his no contest plea for committing insurance fraud, a Class C felony.

  7. Public-order crime - Wikipedia

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    The use of the term "public-order crime" grew out of the research to test the hypothesis underlying the term "victimless crime". So-called victimless crimes or crimes without victims were tested to determine whether a case could be argued that the behaviour produced harmful consequences for innocent people (p19) recognising that there was ...

  8. HPD officer gets probation for insurance fraud - AOL

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    An Oahu Circuit Court judge sentenced a Honolulu Police Department officer to fines, community service and forced him to abide by specific probation conditions for four years or risk jail time for ...

  9. Capital punishment for non-violent offenses - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment for offenses is allowed by law in some countries. Such offenses include adultery, apostasy, blasphemy, corruption, drug trafficking, espionage, fraud, homosexuality and sodomy not involving force, perjury causing execution of an innocent person (which, however, may well be considered and even prosecutable as murder), prostitution, sorcery and witchcraft, theft, treason and ...