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White Collar Crime and the Poverty of the Criminal Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1992 

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6 If, for instance, shaming that results from Condemnation has a reintegrative effect on perpetrators and victims alike, strengthening community, then just desert may be functional in a nearly utilitarian sense. See John Braithwaite, Crime, Shame and Reintegration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).Google Scholar

7 This we learned from judges in an interview study, who disclosed rich analyses of cases they sentence but who in the then-current sentencing system, before the Federal Guidelines, had no clear obligation to give detailed reasons and no appellate review over them. See Stanton Wheeler, Kenneth Mann, & Austin Sarat, Sitting in Judgment: The Sentencing of White Collar offenders (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988).Google Scholar

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