02569cam a2200397 i 4500 2691958895 TxAuBib 20260302120000.0 r 260111s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781594035487 electronic bk. 1594035482 electronic bk. MWT11837312 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Silverglate, Harvey, author. Three Felonies a Day [Hoopla] : How The Feds Target The Innocent / Harvey Silverglate. [United States : Encounter Books, 2011. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (392 pages.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. 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. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla eBook. Criminal justice, Administration of. Prosecution. Public prosecutors. Criminal law. Law. Electronic books. hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11837312?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4534 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/csp_9781594035487_180.jpeg Cover image CLMPL