Public-Order Crimes.

All societies prosecute violent crimes: murder, rape, armed robbery, kidnapping, and assault.  We even prosecute “white collar crimes,” wrongs committed by people sitting at computers in shirts and ties: embezzlement, securities fraud, insider trading. But Public Order crimes are controversial.  Should gambling be a crime? Drugs? Prostitution?  People call these “victimless crimes,” arguing that ifContinue reading “Public-Order Crimes.”