Wrongful conviction of the innocent is of course a problem, and it's good we just had a #WrongfulConvictionDay. But the bigger problem we have in the U.S. is how we treat the guilty, how we over-punish the guilty, and take away their dignity. I'm with the guilty.
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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