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Re:America Has a Black-Market Problem, Not a Drug Problem by wavefunction on Monday March 17, 2014 @06:51PM (#7418655)
Tax evasion and failure to provide child support are perfect examples of crimes with real victims. The perpetrator is victimizing society, and their own child in these cases.

Do you have some better examples you would like to use?

Re:America Has a Black-Market Problem, Not a Drug Problem by humanrebar on Monday March 17, 2014 @07:26PM (#7418820)
I was unclear, but I didn't necessarily agree with those examples, so I added scare quotes. My point was that there should be some crimes that result in fines but not jail time.

Better examples? Practicing medicine without a license (assuming good medicine otherwise). Trespassing (assuming no other damages). Criminal endangerment (assuming no actual harms). Production of controlled substances. Ownership (not use) of unlicensed firearms.

Again, I don't necessarily agree that those are all victimless. The point is that they are arguably benign crimes that shouldn't necessarily require jail time.