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SITTING IN JUDGEMENT
THE SENTENCING OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINALS |
| By: |
Stanton Wheeler, Kenneth Mann, Austin Sarat |
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Paperback |
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£22.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300054750 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300054750 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
29 January, 1992 |
| Pages: |
216 |
| Description: |
Describes how federal judges sentence white-collar criminals, exploring such topics as the information available to judges and how they work with it, the principles of harm, blameworthiness and consequence that affect judges' decisions and the problems of providing a system of consistent sentences. |
| Synopsis: |
When judges confront convicted white-collar criminals, their sentencing world becomes particularly complicated. The cases are enormously heterogeneous. It is harder to speak of a typical bribery or securities fraud than a typical drug deal or mail theft. And in white-collar cases, far ore often than in common crimes, matters of intent and motivation are often ambiguous. Sitting in Judgement provides the first book-length study of the beliefs and practices of federal judges as they go about the task of sentencing white-collar criminals. Working from lengthy, in-depth interviews with fifty-one judges in seven federal districts, the book explores such topics as the information available to sentencing judges and how they work with it; the principles of harm, blameworthiness, and consequence that affect judges' decisions; and the conceptual problems that make it difficult to convert a basic agreement on principle into a system of consistent sentences. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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