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PublisherEncounter Books
ISBN-101594035229
ISBN-139781594035227
eBay Product ID (ePID)102910059
Product Key Features
Book TitleThree Felonies a Day : How the Feds Target the Innocent
Number of Pages392 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicLegal Profession, Criminal Law / General, Criminal Procedure
GenreLaw
AuthorHarvey Silverglate
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal345.73/05042
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Foreword by Alan M. Dershowitz Introduction: Traps and Snares for the Unwary Innocent 1. Reeling in the Great White, and Other Tales of Fishing for State and Local Pols 2. Giving Doctors Orders 3. The Unhealthy Pursuit of Medical Device and Drug Companies 4. Following (or Harassing?) the Money 5. Accounting for the Perils Facing Business Support Services: The Late Arthur Andersen & Co. and Its Repercussions 6. Lawyers: Government Offense Against the Best Defense 7. Doing Their Duty (or Committing Espionage?) and Other Media Twilight Zones 8. National Security: Protecting the Nation from Merchants, Artists, Professors, Students and Lobbyists for Non-Profits? Conclusion: For Whom the Bell Tolls Endnotes Index
SynopsisThe average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to white collar criminals, state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.", The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to "white collar criminals," state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance., The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to white collar criminals," state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.
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- 25. Feb. 2022
Good read
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- 14. Jan. 2020
Discouragement well written.
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