Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime Baer Miriam H.
Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime Baer Miriam H. Myths and Misunderstandings in White Collar Crime uses real world examples to explore the pathologies that hamper our ability to…
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Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime Baer Miriam H.
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. 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. 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.
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