Overcoming Overcriminalization

The literature treats overcriminalization (and, at the federal level, the federalization of crime) as a quantitative problem. Legislatures, on this view, have simply enacted too many crimes, and those crimes are far too broad in scope. This Article uses federal criminal law as a basis for challengin...

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1. VerfasserIn: Smith, Stephen (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2013
In:Jahr: 2013
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