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2014

Criminal Law and Procedure

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What Is An Accident?, Daniel B. Yeager Feb 2014

What Is An Accident?, Daniel B. Yeager

Daniel B. Yeager

Please consider for publication my attached 5000-word, 28-page, lightly annotated (39 footnotes) Essay, entitled “What Is an Accident?”

Here I attempt to decode the most frequently proferred excuse in and out of law. Surprisingly, as central as accidents are to questions of responsibility, their criteria have received almost no attention at all. From what I can tell, mine is the first sustained attempt to identify the grammar of accidents, an endeavor that follows up on similar efforts to do the same with the excuse of mistake in my book J.L. Austin and the Law: Exculpation and the Explication of Responsibility …

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Continuous Contamination: How Traditional Criminal Restitution Principles And Section 2259 Undermine Cleaning Up The Toxic Waste Of Child Pornography, Mary Margaret Giannini Feb 2014

Continuous Contamination: How Traditional Criminal Restitution Principles And Section 2259 Undermine Cleaning Up The Toxic Waste Of Child Pornography, Mary Margaret Giannini

Mary Margaret Giannini

Continuous Contamination:
How Traditional Criminal Restitution Principles
and Section 2259
Undermine Cleaning Up the
Toxic Waste of Child Pornography Possession
Mary Margaret Giannini
ABSTRACT
Section 2259 of Title 18 of the United States Code allows courts to award victims of child pornography possession monetary relief from those convicted of possessing images of the victim’s sexual abuse. The statute is grounded in traditional criminal restitution principles that guide that a defendant pay for a victim’s losses which are the result of the specific acts he committed. However, courts have increasingly struggled with applying this construct to the harms and losses suffered …

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