Sitting in Judgement - The Sentencing of White-Collar Criminals

When judges confront convicted white-collar criminals, their sentencing world becomes particularly complicated. The cases are enormously heterogeneous. It is harder to speak of a typical bribery or securities fraud than a typical drug deal or mail theft. And in white-collar cases, far ore often than in common crimes, matters of intent and motivation are often ambiguous. Sitting in Judgement provides the first book-length study of the beliefs and practices of federal judges as they go about the task of sentencing white-collar criminals. Working from lengthy, in-depth interviews with fifty-one judges in seven federal districts, the book explores such topics as the information available to sentencing judges and how they work with it; the principles of harm, blameworthiness, and consequence that affect judges' decisions; and the conceptual problems that make it difficult to convert a basic agreement on principle into a system of consistent sentences. Zusammenfassung Describes how federal judges sentence white-collar criminals, exploring such topics as the information available to judges and how they work with it, the principles of harm, blameworthiness and consequence that affect judges' decisions and the problems of providing a system of consistent sentences.

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• Authors: Kenneth Mann, Austin Sarat, Stanton Wheeler, Stanton Mann Wheeler, Stanton Sarat Wheeler, WHEELER STANTON MANN KENNETH SAR
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.1992
• EAN: 9780300054750
• ISBN: 978-0-300-05475-0
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Yale Studies on White-Collar C; Yale Studies on White-Collar Crime Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Criminal law & procedure, United States of America, USA, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Criminal law: procedure and offences