victimless crime

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   an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims

   “he considers prostitution to be a victimless crime”

   Broadercrime

Questions about victimless crime

What does victimless crime mean?

victimless crime means "an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims".

Is victimless crime a common word?

victimless crime is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.