Victimless crimes state that they have no victim. What are considered victimless crimes and are they truly victimless?

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Victimless crimes are crimes like gambling, drug use, and prostitution. Each crime creates different victims out of family and friends. Gambling can lead to a life of financial irresponsibility and crime to pay off the financial decisions from gambling. Abuse of gambling can put family members in jail requiring other family’s members or the government to pick up the cost of raising children, supporting addiction, and housing and offender. Drug use can lead to abuse having the government support drug users in rehab. Families are torn apart by a person’s drug use and the individual becomes a drain on society. Drug use results in property and street crimes to find ways to make money to buy the next fix of the drug. Drug use has been shown to also affect children of users in both medical and emotional ways that cause them to act out in life and become offenders themselves. Prostitution is a magnet for crime. Engaging in prostitution can turn from consensual sex to rape very quickly. Battery and assault crimes occur during the commission of prostitution. Prostitution is directly responsible for the sex trade. Meeting the demands of clients in the sex trade is a direct result of prostitution. All of these crimes on the surface and in moderation seem to be victimless, but when you look at the effects on the surrounding people related to those crimes, you can see that it is not victimless.