I don’t focus my energy on white collar crimes but I do think they’re an interesting crucible for the criminal justice reform crowd: What do we do with extremely unsympathetic and clearly guilty criminals?
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I think we need beefed-up criminal enforcement but more importantly we need to spend more $ on regulatory agencies with teeth, and restructure whole sectors of the economy with administrative law… we can't prosecute our way to economic justice
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Right there with you on restructure whole sectors of the economy. The abolitionist view as applied to white collar crime is badly under appreciated: We should be less concerned with punishment ex post and more concerned with preventing crime.http://progressivearmy.com/2018/02/20/book-review-chickenshit-club/ …
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thanks for flagging this review! fun fact: my first job out of college was filling the vacancy left by Jesse Eisinger, Chickenshit author, at a small finance/business newsletter in Santiago, Chile. He, unlike me, has gone on to great things as an economics journalist!
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Oh interesting. He’s a careful and intrepid journalist; I just found his conclusions disappointing. But you’re doing well for yourself!
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Wrongful convictions draw sympathy to a cause, but the greater challenge is convincing people it is a slippery slope to tyranny when we throw people who have already paid their debt into the social waste basket, permanently denying them the right to redeem themselves.
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