Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime

Miriam H. Baer (Brooklyn Law School)

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English

Cambridge University Press
10 August 2023

Corporate crime; Behavioural theory (Behaviourism); Courts & procedure

Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime uses real-world examples to explore the pathologies that hamper our ability to understand and redress white-collar crime. The book argues that misinterpretations about federal white-collar crime impede its lawmaking, enforcement, and discourse, leading it to be overcriminalized and underenforced. Many of these pathologies can be traced to the federal code's failure to subdivide white-collar crimes by degrees of severity, and by the legislature's outsourcing of criminal lawmaking to other institutions. With deep knowledge of the federal code and theories of institutional design and behavioral psychology at her disposal, Miriam Baer offers a step-by-step framework for redressing these problems by paying greater attention to how we write, frame, and lay out our federal criminal code. A clearer, subdivided criminal code, she argues, paves the way for more informed and productive deliberation, and fewer myths and misunderstandings.

By: Miriam H. Baer (Brooklyn Law School)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781009279802
ISBN 10: 1009279807
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 10 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. Too much or too little? 2. Unknown knowns; 3. Flat laws; 4. Outsourcing; 5. Gap management; 6. Broken discourse; 7. Breaking down the code; 8. Consolidation and grading; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Index.

Miriam Baer is the Vice Dean and Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where she has taught criminal law and procedure and white-collar crime for over a decade.