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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The book is a great theoretical introduction to theft law.--J. M. Keller"Choice" (01/01/2013)
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'Drawing on a plethora of real-world examples--from the internet user who accesses a store's wireless network from his car, to the Florida man who falsely asserted that he had won the Medal of Honor, to Mark Zuckerberg's alleged theft of his classmates' social networking website idea . . . Green demonstrates how changes over the last half century have rendered theft law wholly incompatible with its moral foundations. Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle offers conversation-sparking principles for reform that will aid politicians, jurists, and scholars alike.' -- Harvard Law Review
'A great theoretical introduction to theft law. Highly recommended.' Choice Reviews
'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.' (Markus Dubber, University Of Toronto )
'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.' (Leo Katz, University Of Pennsylvania )
'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.' (Robert Weisberg, Stanford
University)
'A great theoretical introduction to theft law. Highly recommended.' Choice Reviews
'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.' (Markus Dubber, University Of Toronto )
'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.' (Leo Katz, University Of Pennsylvania )
'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.' (Robert Weisberg, Stanford
University)
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13 Ways to Steal a Bicycle presents a brilliant philosophical analysis of theft. Unlike so many books on legal topics, this one is not beyond the reach of the non-lawyer. Professor Green should be congratulated on bringing such clarity and depth of insight to a complex and important societal issue.
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