Book chapter
Sentencing of White-Collar Offenders in U.S. Federal Courts: Empirical Findings and Legal Issues
Oxford Handbook Topics in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Oxford University Press
05/01/2012
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935383.013.52
Abstract
This paper begins by discussing variables influencing sentence severity imposed in white-collar cases in federal courts. Sentence outcomes imposed under indeterminate, presumptive, and advisory federal sentencing policies are discussed in terms of the effect of defendant characteristics, legally relevant case characteristics, and process-related variables on the probability of imprisonment, length of imprisonment, and probability of receiving a suspended sentence. Federal sentencing guidelines legalities are presented, with attention to white-collar crimes of larceny, embezzlement, counterfeiting, fraud and deceit, and forgery. Attention shifts to legal issues relevant to the adjudication and sentencing of white-collar offenders. The blurring of criminal and civil law in statutory law governing criminal prosecution and sentencing of white-collar offenders is dicussed. In addition, attention is given to both the offense-specific features of the federal sentencing guidelines, to mechanisms of discretion, and guideline departures, as they apply to sentencing in economic crimes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Sentencing of White-Collar Offenders in U.S. Federal Courts: Empirical Findings and Legal Issues
- Creators
- Celesta A Albonetti - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Oxford Handbooks Editorial Board (Institution)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Oxford Handbook Topics in Criminology and Criminal Justice
- DOI
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935383.013.52
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2012
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9984306346302771
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