Power, profit, and pluralism: New avenues for research on restorative justice and white-collar crime

Abstract

This chapter considers and highlights a different approach to dealing with the white-collar and/or corporate offender that departs from the more commonly used punitive approach utilized by the American criminal justice system. Currently, terms of incarceration for individual offenders and the use of hefty fines and strict regulations against organizational defendants are commonly used draconian punishments. Therefore, this article is designed to remind readers of another viable approach to dealing with white-collar and/or corporate crime, one which utilizes a compliance or cooperative strategy of social control; that is the use of a system of restorative justice.

Citation

Leeper Piquero, N., Rice, S.K. and Piquero, A.R. (2008), "Power, profit, and pluralism: New avenues for research on restorative justice and white-collar crime", Ventura Miller, H. (Ed.) Restorative Justice: from Theory to Practice (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 209-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1521-6136(08)00409-0