Three Felonies a Day Three Felonies a Day

Three Felonies a Day

How the Feds Target the Innocent

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2011
June 7
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
392
Pages
PUBLISHER
Encounter Books
SELLER
Perseus Books, LLC
SIZE
1.2
MB

Customer Reviews

bbarlow641 ,

Preview never gets to the book!

After the multi page preface, an introduction or two, the preview stops and asks for purchase. How can I evaluate the author’s style, his readability without being able to read a few pages of his work? Ridiculous. I’ve read many preview where there are omitted pages - there should have been some here.

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