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Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle : Theft Law in the Information Age by Stuart P. Green (2012, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674047311
ISBN-139780674047310
eBay Product ID (ePID)111002514
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle : Theft Law in the Information Age
SubjectIntellectual Property / General, Criminal Law / General, Property, Criminology
Publication Year2012
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLaw, Social Science
AuthorStuart P. Green
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight20 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2011-036613
ReviewsTheft law, that vital but underexamined part of our jurisprudence, gets its best contemporary treatment from Stuart Green. This book is at once a comprehensive treatise, a pedagogic tool, and a provocative argument of both moral philosophy and social policy. Especially as we focus increasingly on intangible property, Green's book guides us to a fresh inquiry into what ways of taking things'e"and what things are taken'e"should lead to criminal condemnation. It will dominate discussions of theft in the coming years., Groundbreaking in every sense, Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle lays the foundation for the serious study of the law of theft. No one will be able to write on the subject of property offenses without learning from Stuart Green's book., Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle is a tour de force'e"as wonderful as its title and as fascinating as its subject. Theft law is strange and this book tries to explain that strangeness'e"why it matters so much just exactly how something is stolen, by robbery, larceny, fraud, or other means; why only certain things are considered capable of being stolen; why the theft of electricity, sexual services, or glory are so problematic. This is a work of first-class scholarship, in addition to being just plain fun to read., Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle is a tour de force'as wonderful as its title and as fascinating as its subject. Theft law is strange and this book tries to explain that strangeness'why it matters so much just exactly how something is stolen, by robbery, larceny, fraud, or other means; why only certain things are considered capable of being stolen; why the theft of electricity, sexual services, or glory are so problematic. This is a work of first-class scholarship, in addition to being just plain fun to read., Theft law, that vital but underexamined part of our jurisprudence, gets its best contemporary treatment from Stuart Green. This book is at once a comprehensive treatise, a pedagogic tool, and a provocative argument of both moral philosophy and social policy. Especially as we focus increasingly on intangible property, Green's book guides us to a fresh inquiry into what ways of taking things'and what things are taken'should lead to criminal condemnation. It will dominate discussions of theft in the coming years.
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal345/.0262
SynopsisTheft causes greater economic injury than any other criminal offense. Yet fundamental questions about what should count as stealing remain unresolved. Green assesses our legal framework at a time when our economy commodifies intangibles (intellectual property, information, ideas, identities, and virtual property) and theft grows more sophisticated., 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.
LC Classification NumberK5217.G74 2012
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