Question: The municipal court studied by Meyer and Jesilow (1997) processed relatively few traditional misdemeanors-assaults and thefts, for example. Instead, much of the court's time was taken up with people who had committed many "victimless crimes," such as vagrancy, public drunkenness, drug use, and prostitution. Do these cases belong in the courts? Would society be better served by handling many of these types of cases in social institutions?