Why are white-collar criminals NOT punished with jail time or other severe penalties?
A) Their public humiliation at being caught is deemed to be sufficient punishment.
B) Lawyers in these cases are high priced and are rarely hired by the victims of corporate crime.
C) Technically, white-collar crime is not illegal; it's just bad business ethics.
D) Prisons are full and judges fear that these higher-class criminals will be attacked by lower-class thugs in prisons.
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