Do freegans commit theft?

• Thomas, Sean Rhys https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6141-873X

Cited widely across disciplinary boundaries: see e.g. A Barnard, ‘“Waving the banana” at capitalism: Political theater and social movement strategy among New York’s “freegan” dumpster divers’ (2011) 12 Ethnography 419, 423; E Giorda, ‘Freeganism’ in A Smith (ed), The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Food and Drink in America (2nd edn, OUP 2012); D Ormerod and K Laird, Smith and Hogan’s Text, Cases, and Materials on Criminal Law (11th edn, OUP 2014) 761; I Goold, ‘Abandonment and Human Tissue’ in I Goold, J Herring, L Skene, and K Greasley (eds), Persons, Parts and Property: How Should We Regulate Human Tissue in the 21st Century? (Hart Publishing 2014) ch 9; R Hickey, ‘Possession Taken by Theft and the Original Acquisition of Personal Property Rights’ in N Hopkins (ed), Modern Studies in Property Law: Volume 7 (OUP 2014) ch 18. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded with permission of the publisher/copyright holder. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details

• Published: March 2010