Thirteen ways to steal a bicycle : theft law in the information age / Stuart P. Green.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.

1st edition

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13 ways to steal a bicycle : theft law in the informations age.

Theft -- English-speaking countries.

1. Theft law adrift

2. The gist of theft

3. Theft as a crime

4. Property in theft law.

This book is about the disorganised state of the law of theft in most Anglophone jurisdictions, though the focus is on the position in the USA and the UK. In essence Green is concerned with the dissonance between what people see as criminal conduct and the way the law of theft responds. For an extreme example, there is a large section of the community (mainly adolescent boys) that would no doubt support the criminalisation of conduct in the virtual world of online gaming. How does theft law respond in a world of intangibles where the notion of property is becoming highly sophisticated? Green calls for reform in a book that will appeal to regulators and academics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780674047310

xii, 382 p. ; 25 cm