Teri KanefieldJun 15, 2024

I have this week's blog post ready.

If anyone will like this one, it's my Fediverse readers because it's super nerdy. I even took issue with Immanuel Kant.

I started to write about more mundane things like arrest procedures and arraignments, and then I got caught up in more interesting issues like why we even have criminal law.

It's here: https://terikanefield.com/criminal-law-and-procedure-part-2-why-criminal-law/

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Criminal law and procedure, Part 2: Why Criminal Law? - Teri Kanefield

Welcome back to Everything You Ever Wanted To Know (and presumably more than you’ll ever need to know) about Criminal Law and Procedure. Last week, in Part 1, the Basics, I covered: What is a crime and how do we decide which behavior to criminalize? Types of Crimes When Rape Was a Property Crime Financial […]

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@Teri_Kanefield Neat!

This post got me thinking about another reasin for the law, as some people see it: to trip up bad people. Not to hold everyone to uniform standards of conduct, but to bedevil bad people. Those who view the law this way, consider it an abuse of the system whenever they (or people they like) are prosecuted.

Jun 16, 2024 at 7:20amWeb