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Undoing the clickbait: > many judges seem to believe that a fall from grace is punishment enough, especially since white-collar defendants (often older white m
by sasaf5 6y ago
Undoing the clickbait:
> many judges seem to believe that a fall from grace is punishment enough, especially since white-collar defendants (often older white men) pose little danger to society, at least with respect to committing violent crimes.
- heavenlyblue 6y agoWhich, if you think about it, works the other way around: the person gets a ton of media coverage supporting how dodgy they can be; which gives their future employer a direct sign of what they could be hired to do. You don’t even need to ask for it; just hire them and not stop them from continuing with their previous methods.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoIt's more that many judges believe that white color criminals break the same sort of laws that the judges do, so it's not so bad. This becomes clear when you judges that excuse violent crimes like rape when perpetrated by rich white (not just in the collar) men.
- Gibbon1 6y agoYears ago on HN I posted a link to an essay by a appellate court chief justice that basically claimed that. Poor people need the threat of prison to keep them in line. Middle class people need the threat of loss of money to keep them in line. The wealthy only need the loss of their good reputation to keep them in line. That flies in the face of everything I know about poor people. For them their reputation is the only thing of value they have.