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Over-Criminalization of Social and Economic Conduct
The origin of modern criminal law can be traced
to early feudal times. From its inception, the criminal law expressed both
a moral and a practical judgment about the societal consequences of certain
activity: to be a crime, the law required that an individual must both cause
(or attempt to cause) a wrongful injury and do so with some form of malicious
intent. Classically, lawyers capture this insight in two
principles...
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