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Criminal Laws on the Fringe: An Analysis of Legislated Punishments for Morality Crimes in the 50 States Keith E. Clement ? John W. Barbrey Abstract Each of the 50 states currently attempts to prohibit acts that could be calledvictimless, public order, or morality-based crimes. The first objective of this research is toidentify conceptually similar criminal offenses regulating adult behavior in the UnitedStates. The state-level crimes ultimately selected for our analysis of 2006 online criminalcode sanctions include: prostitution (separately reviewing ‘‘anti-john’’ statutes), gambling,mar