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Celesta A. Albonetti - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Case Complexity, Guilty Pleas, and Offender Characteristics on Sentencing for Offenders Convicted of a White-Collar Offense Prior to Sentencing Guidelines
Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1998Co-Authors: Celesta A. AlbonettiAbstract:Previous research on the punishment of offenders convicted of a White-Collar Offense estimated models that specify only direct effects of defendant characteristics, Offense-related variables, and guilty pleas on sentence severity. Drawing from conflict or labeling theories, much of this research focused on the effects of offender's socioeconomic status on sentence outcomes. Findings from this research are inconsistent about the relationship between defendant characteristics and sentence severity. These studies overlook how differences in case complexity of White-Collar Offense and guilty pleas may intervene in the relationship between offender characteristics and sentence outcomes. This study seeks to contribute to an understanding of federal sentencing prior to the federal sentencing guidelines by testing a legal-bureaucratic theory of sentencing that hypothesizes an interplay between case complexity, guilty pleas and length of imprisonment. This interplay reflects the interface between the legal ramifications of pleading guilty, prosecutorial interests in efficiency and finality of case disposition in complex White-Collar cases, and sentence severity. Using structural equation modeling, a four-equation model of sentencing that specifies case complexity and guilty pleas as intervening variables in the relationship between offender characteristics and length of imprisonment is estimated. Several findings are noteworthy. First, the hypothesized interplay between case complexity, guilty pleas, and sentence severity is supported. Second, the effect of offender's educational attainment on sentence severity is indirect via case complexity and guilty pleas. Third, offender's race and gender effect length of imprisonment both directly and indirectly through the intervening effect of case complexity and guilty pleas. These findings indicate the need to specify sentencing models that consider the direct and indirect effects of offender characteristics, Offense characteristics, and guilty pleas on judicial discretion at sentencing.
Thomas E. Dearden - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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How modern psychology can help us understand White-Collar criminals
Journal of Financial Crime, 2019Co-Authors: Thomas E. DeardenAbstract:This paper aims to add to the theoretical discussion of White-Collar crime by introducing modern psychological decision-making literature and the potential effect on White-Collar offending.,Using a theoretical approach, literature on heuristics, innovation and stress, insight into why White-Collar offenders decide to commit crime is posited.,The heuristics and strategies that people use to assist in decision-making process may inadvertently promote White-Collar crime. For example, stress may inhibit White-Collar offenders’ thinking, causing them to discount the risk of committing said Offense; individuals may not challenge the success of carrying out a White-Collar Offense once it is considered; and generally, people will be more optimistic in considering their success of not getting caught.,Currently, the study of White-Collar crime is discussed largely in the context of sociological factors. Current psychological theories have considerable explanatory power in understanding why White-Collar offenders commit their crimes.
Gary S. Green - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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White-Collar Crime and the Study of Embezzlement
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1993Co-Authors: Gary S. GreenAbstract:The term “White-Collar crime” has come to mean many things since Edwin Sutherland coined it more than fifty years ago. Many scholars, including Sutherland himself, referred to embezzlement as a White-Collar crime. Upon close examination, however, this theft-after-trust Offense is probably not a White-Collar one in the original sense of the term. This article addresses the problems of data interpretation and behavioral explanation in the study of trust violation, especially in light of scholars' focus on it as a White-Collar Offense.
Elizabeth Szockyj - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Insider Trading: The SEC Meets Carl Karcher
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1993Co-Authors: Elizabeth SzockyjAbstract:In the 1980s, the Securities and Exchange Commission stepped up its enforcement of insider trading violations. This article examines, by means of an intensive case study, the intricacies involved in proving both civil and criminal insider trading charges. The case offers important insights about the way that insider trading cases are perceived, handled, and adjudicated; it also provides empirical evidence regarding the considerable difficulty of litigating a White-Collar Offense. The accused can afford effective and astute legal representation; the Offense is essentially financial, with no eyewitness testimony or visible victims to take the stand; and the defendants are well-respected, established members of the community.
