Class, Status, and the Punishment of White-Collar Criminals
β Scribed by David Weisburd, Elin Waring and Stanton Wheeler
- Book ID
- 121271148
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 429 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0897-6546
- DOI
- 10.2307/828694
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Even though white-collar criminals (WCCs) cause financial damage and, at times, emotional and physical harm to individuals, organisations, and consumers, their crimes are viewed as being less harmful than street-level crimes. Misperceptions that WCCs commit financial crimes because of a temporary mo
Although financial losses from white-collar crime continue to exceed those of street crime, the criminal justice system has traditionally focused on the latter. Past research suggested that citizens are more likely to support punitive sanctions for street offenders than white-collar offenders. Recen
Much has been learned about the relationship between sanction threat perceptions and criminal activity, yet little remains known about the factors that are associated with sanction threat perceptions. Moreover, because most researchers had studied deterrence within the context of street crime, even