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I. Theoretical Speculations About White-Collar Crime I. Theoretical Speculations About White-Collar Crime
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A. White-Collar Crime as Rational Choice A. White-Collar Crime as Rational Choice
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B. Looking at White-Collar Crime as Rational Decision Making B. Looking at White-Collar Crime as Rational Decision Making
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II. Empirical Studies of Perceived Sanction Threats and White-Collar Crime II. Empirical Studies of Perceived Sanction Threats and White-Collar Crime
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A. General Studies of White-Collar Crime A. General Studies of White-Collar Crime
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B. Research on Deterrent Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley Act B. Research on Deterrent Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley Act
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III. Conclusions, Implications, and Recommendations for Future Research III. Conclusions, Implications, and Recommendations for Future Research
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Notes Notes
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References References
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30 White-Collar Crime and Perceptual Deterrence
Get accessRay Paternoster is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. He is interested in rational choice models of offender decision making, the transition from adolescence to adulthood, desistance theory and research, and issues related to capital punishment.
Stephen G. Tibbetts, PhD, is Professor of Criminal Justice at the California State University, San Bernardino.
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Published:07 April 2016
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Abstract
The chapter examines the extent to which white-collar crime can be considered a “rational” crime that can be deterred by the threat of criminal, regulatory, or administrative sanctions. The authors present arguments as to why white-collar crime involves rational decision making and on what bases white-collar offenders are rational, and the extent to which they are responsive to deterrent threats. The authors review some of the empirical studies that have investigated whether white-collar offenders behave in a rational way by seeing to what extent perceptions of sanctions, both formal or official and informal, affect their judgment and decision making. The conclusion is that white-collar offenders are not strongly deterred by the threat of formal sanctions. However, they are affected by the possible financial and other benefits of offending, the possibility of social censure from others, and the extent to which criminal acts are morally condemned either personally or within the culture of the firm.
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