Myths and misunderstandings in white-collar crime:

Myths and Misunderstandings in White Collar Crime uses real world examples to explore the pathologies that hamper our ability to understand and redress white-collar crime. The book argues that several misinterpretations about white-collar crime continue to impede its enforcement, including: its fail...

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Beteilige Person: Baer, Miriam H. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2023
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009279758
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009279758
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009279758
Zusammenfassung:Myths and Misunderstandings in White Collar Crime uses real world examples to explore the pathologies that hamper our ability to understand and redress white-collar crime. The book argues that several misinterpretations about white-collar crime continue to impede its enforcement, including: its failure to be classified according to degrees of severity in many jurisdictions; its failure to statutorily parse groups of defendants into major and minor players; and the failure of statutes to effectively define crimes, leading to the prosecution of 'unwritten' crimes. Miriam Baer offers a step-by-step framework, informed by theories of institutional design and behavioral psychology, for redressing these misunderstandings through 'code design,' or paying greater attention to how we write, frame, and lay out our federal criminal code, as a roadmap to more coherent and useful laws. A clearer, subdivided criminal code paves the way for a discussion of white-collar crime unmarred by myths and misunderstandings
Beschreibung:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jul 2023)
Too much or too little? -- Unknown knowns -- Flat laws -- Outsourcing -- Gap management -- Broken discourse -- Breaking down the code -- Consolidation and grading
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 220 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009279758
DOI:10.1017/9781009279758