{"id":31638,"date":"2012-03-29T16:25:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T16:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/stuart_green-when_stealing_isnt_stealing\/"},"modified":"2012-03-29T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T16:25:45","slug":"stuart_green-when_stealing_isnt_stealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31638","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Green&#8211;When Stealing Isn\u2019t Stealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1962, the prestigious American Law Institute issued the Model Penal Code, resulting in the confused state of theft law we\u2019re still dealing with today.<\/p>\n<p>In a radical departure from prior law, the code defined \u201cproperty\u201d\u009d to refer to \u201canything of value.\u201d\u009d Henceforth, it would no longer matter whether the property misappropriated was tangible or intangible, real or personal, a good or a service. All of these things were now to be treated uniformly.<\/p>\n<p>Before long, the code would inform the criminal law that virtually every law student in the country was learning. And when these new lawyers went to work on Capitol Hill, at the Justice Department and elsewhere, they had that approach to theft in mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/29\/opinion\/theft-law-in-the-21st-century.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1962, the prestigious American Law Institute issued the Model Penal Code, resulting in the confused state of theft law we\u2019re still dealing with today. In a radical departure from prior law, the code defined \u201cproperty\u201d\u009d to refer to \u201canything<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31638\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,94,589,149,114,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-blogging-the-internet","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-law-legal-issues","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}