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victim .
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Ridley advocates documenting police enforcement of what he calls victimless crimes.
Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news 2010
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Ridley advocates documenting police enforcement of what he calls victimless crimes.
Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news 2010
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Ridley advocates documenting police enforcement of what he calls victimless crimes.
Free Keene 2010
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Ridley advocates documenting police enforcement of what he calls victimless crimes.
Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news 2010
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Ridley advocates documenting police enforcement of what he calls victimless crimes.
Free Keene 2010
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I hope everyone sees this as a lesson in victimless consensual crime and it helps to destroy stereotypes associated with prostitution. —
A Call Girl’s View of the Spitzer Affair - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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And while not every fake hero does it for financial gain, it can hardly be called a victimless crime.
Richard Mcclanahan 2010
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And while not every fake hero does it for financial gain, it can hardly be called a victimless crime.
Richard Mcclanahan 2010
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More than half of that increase is accounted for by large spikes in arrests in trespassing and drug cases, two so-called victimless crimes that drive up the complaint total, according to the NYPD's recently released statistics.
Police in About-Face on City Crime Data Sean Gardiner 2010
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This is why I am more and more skeptical of the right of the state to prosecute so-called victimless crimes.
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