Conference Papers

Penalties for white-collar crime

John Braithwaite

Published in:
Complex commercial fraud : proceedings of a conference held 20-23 August 1991
Peter N Grabosky (ed)
ISBN 0 642 16992 6 ; ISSN 1034-5086
(AIC Conference Proceedings; no. 10)

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Abstract

Comments are made on a range of aspects relating to penalties not just for fraud but for white collar crime in general. The most serious frauds are perpetrated by corporations, And Braithwaite concentrates on these corporate offences. He notes that corporate criminal law needs to be strengthened by providing enforcement bodies with adequate resources; increasing the number of convictions; using harsher fines and even imprisonment; introducing equity fines; and perhaps seizing assets.