Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle

Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 431
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ISBN-10 : 9780674069985
ISBN-13 : 0674069986
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Book Synopsis Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle by : Stuart P. Green

Download or read book Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle written by Stuart P. Green and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theft claims more victims and causes greater economic injury than any other criminal offense. Yet theft law is enigmatic, and fundamental questions about what should count as stealing remain unresolved—especially misappropriations of intellectual property, information, ideas, identities, and virtual property. In Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle, Stuart Green assesses our current legal framework at a time when our economy increasingly commodifies intangibles and when the means of committing theft and fraud grow ever more sophisticated. Was it theft for the editor of a technology blog to buy a prototype iPhone he allegedly knew had been lost by an Apple engineer in a Silicon Valley bar? Was it theft for doctors to use a patient’s tissue without permission in order to harvest a valuable cell line? For an Internet activist to publish tens of thousands of State Department documents on his Web site? In this full-scale critique, Green reveals that the last major reforms in Anglophone theft law, which took place almost fifty years ago, flattened moral distinctions, so that the same punishments are now assigned to vastly different offenses. Unreflective of community attitudes toward theft, which favor gradations in blameworthiness according to what is stolen and under what circumstances, and uninfluenced by advancements in criminal law theory, theft law cries out for another reformation—and soon.


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