Criminal Sentencing and Deterrence: White Collar Crime and Corporate Misconduct (Part I of III)
The sentencing of criminal defendants continues to create controversy. There are so many categories of crime and ranges of punishment – the issue always calls for difficult judgments and inevitably results in vigorous debate. In this three-part series, I plan to examine some of the issues surrounding sentencing of white-collar defendants and deterrence. It is often presumed that stiff sentencing of white-collar defendants is an...
