White collar crime and the criminal justice system

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongming Cheng ◽  
Ling Ma
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
White Collar

Breaking the Carnival Mirror

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-379
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. Culton ◽  
José A. Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Street Crime ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Rich

We present a reflexive paper assignment calling for students to report on their own family and/or personal experiences in order to answer the question, “From where does the greatest harm arise?” We find that, through the process of answering this question and sharing findings in class, students’ conception of criminality is broadened. Institutional forms of deviance and white-collar crime come to be understood as the real commonplace sources of harm while street crime is seen to be less common than typically imagined. The book The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class and Criminal Justice by Reiman and Leighton informs this assignment. The authors make the case that the criminal justice system presents to us a carnival mirror-like image of what causes the greatest harm to the society. The criminal justice system, through its policies and procedures, leads the public to conceive of only a narrow and distorted depiction of criminality. The typical crime is thought to be person to person, violent, and carried out by the typical criminal, who is assumed to be black, young, and urban. In opposition to this carnival mirror view, Reiman and Leighton explain that certain institutions cause immensely more harm than that caused by street criminality.

Attribution, Salience, and Attitudes toward Criminal Sanctioning

1985 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCIS T. CULLEN ◽  
GREGORY A. CLARK ◽  
JOHN B. CULLEN ◽  
RICHARD A. MATHERS
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Justice System ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
White Collar ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Attributional Processes ◽  
The Way

Building upon the work of Stinchcombe, Taylor et al., the present research attempts to assess the impact of victimization, salience, and attribution on four measures of criminal sanctioning: general punishment, rehabilitation, capital punishment, and the punishment of white-collar crime. Utilizing a sample drawn from Galesburg, Illinois, our analysis revealed that attitudes were not significantly influenced by being a victim or by crime salience. In contrast, our measure of attribution (what a person “attributed” the cause of crime to) had consistent effects across the scales, with those having a positivist orientation being less punitive and more in favor of rehabilitation. When members of criminal justice related occupations were included in the analysis, these results generally continued to persist. These findings thus suggest that attributional processes and, in particular, the way in which people explain crime may be important determinants of the attitudes that those both inside and outside the criminal justice system hold toward sanctioning policy.

scholarly journals Book Review: Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia of Trends and Controversies in the Justice System

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
Emily Lauren Mross
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Street Crime ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Biological Explanations

The American criminal justice system affects people in all walks of life, from street crime to domestic violence to white collar crime. This two-volume set explores not only landmark cases and laws, but also covers prominent figures, policies, and scandals. Further, the set includes entries that explain broader issues such as “Biological Explanations for Crime” and “Sociological Explanations of Crime.”

scholarly journals Formal Approaches in Controlling White Collar Crime: The Criminal Justice System and the Regulatory System

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Julak Lee
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Street Crime ◽  
Product Recalls ◽  
Prevention Theory

Unlike ordinary street crime, there are two formal systems of controlling white-collar crime. These systems are the criminal justice system and the regulatory system. The criminal justice system controls white-collar crime by using criminal law whereas the regulatory system depends mainly on administrative law and uses various ways such as financial penalties, product recalls, and warnings to control white-collar crime. In this paper two formal justice systems of white collar crime have been discussed. Although the criminal justice system, which is the traditional means to control white-collar crime, can be a strong way to control white-collar crime, it has some limitations. That is, the criminal justice system is difficult to apply to the corporate world and it is the reactive response against white collar crime. In contrast, although the regulatory system is the weak way to control white-collar crime, it has some strength. That is, the regulatory system is a proactive response against white collar crime and it can apply to the corporate as well as natural persons. The characteristics of the regulatory system make it better equipped to situational crime prevention theory compared to the criminal justice system.

Special Procedures for White-Collar and Corporate Wrongdoing

2019 ◽  
pp. 436-456
Author(s):  
Juliette Tricot
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Corporate Crime ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
White Collar ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Regulatory Powers ◽  
Corporate Wrongdoing

This chapter examines special procedures applicable to white-collar and corporate crimes from a European perspective. It first considers the different procedures applicable to corporate crime, focusing on special procedures aimed at preserving sovereign powers, regulatory powers, and co-regulation powers. In each case, tax crime, anticompetitive practices, and anticorruption policies are used as examples, respectively. The chapter proceeds by discussing the distinctive characteristics of special procedures, with emphasis on how confusion of powers prevails over the separation of powers in these procedures, how the search to restore the equilibrium disrupted by misconduct prevails over condemnation and punishment and thus guides enforcement in a direction that is principally prospective rather than retrospective, and why balance of power is an important issue. Finally, the chapter analyzes the possible impact of special procedures on the criminal justice system, particularly on prosecutorial powers.

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