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1 online resource (pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
White collar crimes -- United States.
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White collar crimes. |
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United States. |
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Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- United States.
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Sentences (Criminal procedure) |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781593325824 1593325827 (DLC) 2012021517 |
| ISBN |
1593326130 (electronic book) |
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9781593326135 (electronic book) |
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9781593325824 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1593325827 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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