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I thought this would be easy to answer, but as I tried looking this up, I found that social harm, in the context of criminal law, is pretty much undefined. It differs from state to state and from time to time. So any examples given, like sodomy would be considered in one state, would not be considered social harm in another state. The only "real" definition I could find was from Criminal Law and Procedure By Ronald J. Bacigal: “The criminal law becomes relevant only when a harm is identified as a harm to all of society rather than a harm to just one member of society.” If you don't take the definition of social harm in a law context, then it simply becomes philisophical, i.e. is it a social harm to let a criminal convicted of mass murder free from jail, is it a social harm to allow leader like Hitler to stay in power, etc.
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