Incentivizing Injustice - The 2008 Financial Crisis and Prosecutorial Indiscretion

Informationen zum Autor Sari Krieger Rivera is professor of political science at the University at Albany and the City University of New York. Klappentext Why did no important banking executives face criminal prosecution for the 2008 financial crisis? This book seeks to answer this question by focusing on the incentives faced by the federal prosecutors who would have been tasked with bringing these cases, but instead settled for safer plea agreements. Zusammenfassung Why did no important banking executives face criminal prosecution for the 2008 financial crisis? This book seeks to answer this question by focusing on the incentives faced by the federal prosecutors who would have been tasked with bringing these cases, but instead settled for safer plea agreements. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Tables Introduction Chapter 1: A Summary of the Crisis Chapter 2: Blue Sky and Beyond Chapter 3: Can a Company Be the Bad Guy? Chapter 4: Justice Department Embarrassments Chapter 5: Settling for Safety Chapter 6: Case Studies from the Crisis: Potential Evidence? Chapter 7: Prosecutors' Incentives Chapter 8: Alternative Explanations: Money in Politics Chapter 9: Alternative Explanations: Presidential Leadership Style Chapter 10: Alternative Explanations: Cultural Capture Conclusion Bibliography About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Sari Krieger, Sari Krieger Rivera
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781793654496
• ISBN: 978-1-79365-449-6
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, LAW / Banking, Politics & government, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Banking law