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With regards to the fact that many stipulations in the criminal policy have been introduced to restore the damages inflicted on the victims of the crimes, today's criminal policy is heavily influenced by victimology. Hence, as the victimless crimes are not subject to the criminal policy, many of its stipulations can be enforced just in case there is a victim. The reason for the exclusion of "victimless crimes" from the criminal policy lies in
certain characteristics of such crimes, which make them distinct from other crimes. Some of these characteristics are introduced and discussed in this article as follows:
I.
The criminal statistics relevent to such crimes suffer from
very poor reliability, as their "dark number" is at its most extreme.
II. Due to the absence of a plaintiff, such crimes barely lead
to prosecution.
III. Prevention of such crImes, particularly "situational prevention", would be quite unsuccessful; as those involved in such crimes display no tendency to prevt_ntion.