Reddit reviews Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything

> I don't understand what you are talking about.

Briefly, what I am talking about

• Rethinking Presumed Knowledge of the Law in the Regulatory Age
  
  
• Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything Is a Crime
  
  
• Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything
  
  
• Three Felonies a Day
  
  
  > Prosecutors themselves understand just how much discretion they enjoy. As Tim Wu recounted in 2007, a popular game in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York was to name a famous person—Mother Teresa, or John Lennon—and decide how he or she could be prosecuted:
  
  > "It would then be up to the junior prosecutors to figure out a plausible crime for which to indict him or her. The crimes were not usually rape, murder, or other crimes you’d see on Law & Order but rather the incredibly broad yet obscure crimes that populate the U.S. Code like a kind of jurisprudential minefield: Crimes like “false statements” (a felony, up to five years), “obstructing the mails” (five years), or “false pretenses on the high seas” (also five years). The trick and the skill lay in finding the more obscure offenses that fit the character of the celebrity and carried the toughest sentences. The, result, however, was inevitable: “prison time.”"
  

Here are a couple of books for you: Three Felonies a Day and Go Directly to Jail

Just how government works. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.