Victimless crime laws should be repealed.

My opponent has stated that the following crimes have no victim's and therefore should not be crimes: Prostitution Drug Use Drug Sales and Distribution Gambling I will address these separately showing that not only are these crimes anything but victimless but that they are deserving of punishment due to their negative impact on society as a whole as well as individuals. First Prostitution, This subject is one of the tamer on the list as far as damage to society overall however there are several studies that show over 80 percent of prostitutes are raped during their career over 70 percent have been raped more than 5 times. Over 50 percent of Prostitutes world wide show signs of extreme mental disorders. These Rapes and mental disorders take years of therapy to combat and thousands of dollars most of which becomes the burden of the state or local tax structure. Hardly victimless The prostitute is a victim as are the tax payers that have their hard earned dollars go to reverse years of psychological trauma. Source Illinois Commission Against Sexual Assault Next we will look at both drug use/abuse and Distribution When we look at the drug issues in this country we need to examine as many facets as possible the first and most obvious to me would be the impaired actions of the user having a negative effect on those around said user for example Drugs other than alcohol (e. g. , marijuana and cocaine) are involved in about 18% of motor vehicle driver deaths. These other drugs are generally used in combination with alcohol (Jones et al. 2003). Someone is killed in an accident involving driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol every 31 minutes this is hardly only effecting the individual that is doing the drugs. IF drugs are legal they are more readily available for people to take before a nice evening drive In 2005, nearly 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics (Department of Justice 2005). That's less than one percent of the 159 million self-reported episodes of alcohol–impaired driving among U. S. adults each year (Quinlan et al. 2005). In 2005, 48 children age 14 years and younger who were killed as pedestrians or pedal cyclists were struck by impaired drivers (NHTSA 2006). This is clearly a large problem without control it would become even more deadly and not just to the user. users commit crimes in order to get the money to pay for drugs. If that is correct, the effect of marginal changes in enforcement is theoretically ambiguous. Making drugs more expensive increases the expenditure of drug users per unit of drug consumed, but decreases consumption, so the net effect on the expenditure of drug users depends on the elasticity of demand. If, however, as is widely believed,[4] the price of currently illegal drugs would be very low if they were legal, then the effect of legalization via this mechanism is unambiguous, since consumption has an upper bound set by non-pecuniary constraints. A heroin user who maintains his level of expenditure on heroin when its price falls by a factor of a hundred will no longer be able to commit crimes to pay for his habit, because he will be dead. All Drug information Source: Center for disease control and prevention As far as gambling I think it is a fun activity however there is a down side in gambling addiction: Extreme cases of problem gambling may cross over into the realm of mental disorders. Pathological gambling was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the DSM-III, but the criteria were significantly reworked based on large-scale studies and statistical methods for the DSM-IV. As defined by American Psychiatric Association, pathological gambling is an impulse control disorder that is a chronic and progressive mental illness. All mental illness not only effects the one with the addiction but the family of that individual. I have shown in this opening that these crimes are not victimless, The punishment for them is rational, Logical and just.