0 In a victimless crime no one suffers directly, sometimes because the people affected by the crime have agreed to take part in it: --
1 (of a crime) lacking a victim, or thought not to involve a victim: --
They are not victimless crimes, because they destroy the profitability of businesses and their very existence in many circumstances.
Taking that money, without a democratic mandate, is not a victimless crime.
There are those too who say that insider trading is somehow unimportant because it is a victimless crime.
We must remember that social security fraud is not a victimless crime.
He observed that insider dealing was "a victimless crime".
It is not a victimless tragedy; it also affects the families.
Far from being a victimless crime it is adding significantly to industry costs and inhibiting technological development.
Shoplifting is not a victimless crime, as countless shop workers will testify.
