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District attorneys and corporate crime: surveying the prosecutorial gatekeepers
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A survey of California district attorneys regarding corporate crime focused on the recent experiences of the prosecutors with such crimes and on factors that limit the likelihood of their prosecuting corporate offenders as discussed by the authors, finding that a significant majority of the district attorneys had prosecuted a variety of corporate crimes, and a sizable minority anticipated devoting more resources to corporate crime prosecutions in the future.Abstract:
A mail survey of California district attorneys regarding corporate crime focused on the recent experiences of the prosecutors with such crimes and on factors that limit the likelihood of their prosecuting corporate offenders. A significant majority of the district attorneys had prosecuted a variety of corporate crimes, and a sizable minority anticipated devoting more resources to corporate crime prosecutions in the future. There was a strong consensus among the district attorneys that the primary obstacle to corporate crime prosecutions is not political but practical and inheres in the level of resources available to them. Prosecutors in small districts were more constrained by the potential impact that a corporate prosecution might have on the local economy than their counterparts in large districts. This finding suggests that community context may influence social control responses to corporate lawbreakers.read more
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Sentencing the White-Collar Offender: Rhetoric and Reality
TL;DR: In this paper, the severity of sentences meted out to persons convicted in federal court of presumptively white-collar crimes was examined. But the results indicate that sentencing is more predictable than some recent accounts would suggest.
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The Seriousness of Crime Revisited: Have Attitudes Toward White‐Collar Crime Changed?
TL;DR: This article found that white-collar crime has increased in seriousness more than any other crime category, but that it is still viewed as less serious than most other forms of illegality, while attitudinal changes have been particularly apparent toward two types, Violent and Corporate Price Fixing.
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The Differential Sentencing of White-Collar Offenders in Ten Federal District Courts
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the relationship between the status characteristics of criminal offenders and the sentences they receive, using data from ten federal district courts whose statutes and resources provide greater potential for the prosecution of the white-collar crimes of higher status offenders.
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White-Collar Crime and Punishment: The Class Structure and Legal Sanctioning of Securities Violations
John Hagan,Patricia Parker +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a structural theory of white-collar crime and punishment is proposed, based on the assumption that class position, measured in relational rather than more traditional gradational terms, influences criminal behavior as well as its punishment.