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- Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime
- Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Too Much or Too Little?
- 2 Unknown Knowns
- 3 Flat Laws
- 4 Outsourcing
- 5 Gap Management
- 6 Broken Discourse
- 7 Breaking Down the Code
- 8 Consolidation and Grading
- Conclusion
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2023
- Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime
- Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Too Much or Too Little?
- 2 Unknown Knowns
- 3 Flat Laws
- 4 Outsourcing
- 5 Gap Management
- 6 Broken Discourse
- 7 Breaking Down the Code
- 8 Consolidation and Grading
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
In January 2013, Aaron Swartz, a brilliant computer programmer and activist, died by suicide. At the time, Swartz’s prosecution for engaging in computer fraud – Swartz had reportedly broken into JSTOR, the digital academic library, and had made its content available to the public – was nearing trial in a Boston federal court.2 In the wake of Swartz’s death, critics vehemently blamed the prosecutors spearheading his case for charging him in a way that threatened to produce a potential jail sentence of thirty years’ imprisonment. The United States Attorney contended that Swartz in fact realistically faced no such sentence; indeed, the jail term prosecutors sought in exchange for Swartz’s guilty plea was a mere six months.3 Amidst this back and forth, Swartz’s case eventually receded into the background.
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- Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime , pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023