By Robert M. Hardaway
Hardaway argues the criminalization of victimless crimes violates the 9th modification to the U.S. structure and creates huge, immense public coverage difficulties within the society. He contends that the 9th modification adjudication version and the ideas of self-determination and the damage precept are the criteria to which privateness matters will be litigated.
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137 If criminalizing prostitution cost deficit-ridden governments only $4 trillion in potential revenues, the consequences would not be so tragic. Unfortunately, however, the social costs of criminalization far exceed the financial costs. The same $4 trillion lost to governments that could fund social services, child care, and the like, instead funds the criminal activities of pimps and organizations whose crimes in other areas of society wreak untold misery and suffering on innocent citizens.
Such governments in fact cause far greater harm than the illegal gambling they purport to replace. A responsible gaming policy must include not only an education and treatment program for compulsive gamblers and those who can least 32 No Price Too High afford it but also strict prohibitions against promotion and advertising. Those who wish to gamble in states that forbid gambling have no trouble finding outlets for their illegal gambling activities. Because the purpose of legalization is to provide an outlet for those who will gamble in any case, legal gambling should prohibit promotion or advertising.
Gross, America’s Longest War: Rethinking Our Tragic Crusade Against Drugs (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1993), reviewed by Randy E. J. 2593, 1994. 28. See John A. Powell and Eileen B. C. Davis L. Rev. 557, 1991. The cost of incarcerating one million people is $16 billion. 29. Id. 30. Harmelin, supra note 7. 31. Barnett, supra note 27, p. 2594. 32. A. , 1994), p. 137. 33. , p. 317. 34. , p. 353. 35. Harmelin, supra note 7. 36. Off With Their Heads? Thoughts From the Drug Czar, Washington Post, June 20, 1989, p.