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Dangerous ‘Dead Crimes’ That Are Still on the Books

by Brooke Kaufman

Criminologists have a term for offenses in the criminal code that are no longer considered criminal — “dead crimes.” In the United States, dead crimes are clogging up the criminal code, threatening to undermine the rule of law, according to a forthcoming Georgetown Law Journal article.

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