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Special sensitivity? : the white-collar offender in prison / William A. Stadler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: El Paso, Ark. : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012Description: 1 online resource (pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1593326130
  • 9781593326135
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 365/.60973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6769
Online resources:
Contents:
The white-collar crime problem -- Understanding white-collar crime -- Exploring the special sensitivity hypothesis -- The white-collar inmate experience -- Questioning the special sensitivity hypothesis -- The future of white-collar offender sentencing -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Despite recent increases in incarceration for white-collar offenders, little is known about their prison experiences or how they adjust to imprisonment. In the justice system a view has prevailed that white-collar offenders have a?special sensitivity? to imprisonment?that they are more susceptible to the pains of prison. Stadler explores this view to determine how white-collar inmates adjust to life in prison and whether they do so differently than street offenders. Evidence suggests that white-collar inmates are no more likely to experience negative prison adjustment than street offenders, a.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The white-collar crime problem -- Understanding white-collar crime -- Exploring the special sensitivity hypothesis -- The white-collar inmate experience -- Questioning the special sensitivity hypothesis -- The future of white-collar offender sentencing -- Bibliography -- Index.

Despite recent increases in incarceration for white-collar offenders, little is known about their prison experiences or how they adjust to imprisonment. In the justice system a view has prevailed that white-collar offenders have a?special sensitivity? to imprisonment?that they are more susceptible to the pains of prison. Stadler explores this view to determine how white-collar inmates adjust to life in prison and whether they do so differently than street offenders. Evidence suggests that white-collar inmates are no more likely to experience negative prison adjustment than street offenders, a.

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Master record variable field(s) change: 072, 082 - OCLC control number change

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