Re: Growth of actions definded as crime. Which math formula?
At 23:56 9/5/95, Black Unicorn wrote: rypted mail preferred.
Really it's hard to answer this because what constitutes a "NEW" act is a real question in and of itself.
For example, wire fraud. Is it a "NEW" crime? Or just a subset of fraud, or mail fraud?
If they guy would have gotten away before the new law was passed, it is a new crime. That's the stats I am looking for. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.
On Tue, 5 Sep 1995, Lucky Green wrote:
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 23:01:01 -0800 From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> To: Black Unicorn <unicorn@access.digex.net> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Growth of actions definded as crime. Which math formula?
At 23:56 9/5/95, Black Unicorn wrote: rypted mail preferred.
Really it's hard to answer this because what constitutes a "NEW" act is a real question in and of itself.
For example, wire fraud. Is it a "NEW" crime? Or just a subset of fraud, or mail fraud?
If they guy would have gotten away before the new law was passed, it is a new crime.
This is very rare. It's mostly in definitional cases, for example, where Extacy was just not defined as a controlled substance some years ago. Created crimes are few and far between. There's a lot of jurisprudence. Criminals are creative, but there are only so many things that can't be covered by "Fraud."
That's the stats I am looking for.
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.
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