Restitution Discussion Group Archives
| Sender: |
Allan Axelrod |
| Date: |
Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:39:05 -0400 |
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Steve Hedley wrote:
But it's an interesting question anyway,
of who we regard as "profiting from the crime of another". Insurance
companies, police officers, criminal barristers, and crime writers all
make their money from the crime of others -- if there were no crime,
they would all have to take up quite different jobs. Yet we don't regard
them as "profiting from the crime of another" for legal purposes, whereas
(say) the recipient of a gift from a career criminal probably would
be. This distinction is intuitively appealing, but I'm finding it hard
to put into words, and Andrew's formulation certainly doesn't explain
it. How would someone else put it?
Steve Hedley
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writers cops and lawyers perform a useful social function
with respect to the crime???
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