Word: victimless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Getting cases out of court that should not be there to begin with. Some argue that no-fault auto insurance can help clear the civil courts by eliminating many lengthy personal injury suits. Decriminalizing so-called victimless crimes, such as vagrancy, drunkenness, gambling and marijuana possession ?often randomly enforced?would ease the strain on criminal courts. Perhaps the most promising alternative is to arbitrate or mediate disputes rather than take them straight to court. Neighborhood justice centers set up by the justice department in Atlanta, Kansas City and Los Angeles have worked well, informally settling disputes like neighborhood squabbles...
...street prostitution that the proliferation of pornography brings with it, Boston tried at least to keep it all in one place. The "combat zone," a two-block downtown area full of strip joints, peep shows and streetwalkers, was designated an Adult Entertainment District, and police tended to ignore "victimless crime." But in a few months the rate of street solicitation and crime, along with police corruption, rose alarmingly. After a Harvard football player was stabbed to death, the authorities had to crack down again...
...Decriminalization of so-called victimless offenses, such as marijuana possession, gambling, public drunkenness and consensual adult sex. Many of these laws are widely ignored and enforced only haphazardly. Removing them from criminal codes would improve respect for the justice system and free cops and courts alike for more important matters...
...Lewis any matter related to prostitution. John Doyle, chief of Boston's bureau of investigative services, including the vice squad, says he disapproves of the union, even though he admits to knowing little about it, because the organization seems to encourage prostitution. "I don't agree prostitution is a victimless crime," Doyle adds. He asserts broadly that decriminalization would threten the very nature of society, but then doyle once attended a legislative hearing on prostitution with a bullwhip he claimed police had confiscated in a raid on a house of prostitution...
...many smokers, the smuggling of cigarettes from low-tax to high-tax states is a victimless crime-a free-enterprise way to bring down prices. Lawmakers see it differently. This week a law goes into effect in Ohio that makes "buttlegging" of as little as $60 worth of smokes a felony punishable by a minimum six-month prison term for the first offense. Ohio thus joins eight other states in recognizing that cigarette smuggling is no mere misdemeanor but a crime that drains their treasuries of badly needed revenue...