Sitting in Judgement: The Sentencing of White-Collar Criminals (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300054750)

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.

Author: Stanton Wheeler, Austin Sarat, Kenneth Mann
ISBN-10: 0300054750
ISBN-13: 9780300054750
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1988
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 5.40h x 8.19w x 0.62d