Exam 11: Prosecuting, Defending, and Adjudicating White Collar Crime

The local prosecution of white collar crime cases is based on a number of factors, but not on the level of resources available to the prosecutor.

The broad subpoena powers of a grand jury are one advantage it has in pursuing white collar crime.

Unlike conventional offenders, white collar offenders are not seen as especially suitable for probation.

According to a major study of white collar crime defense work, compared with conventional crime defense, much earlier involvement in the case is the norm.

The prosecution of corporate and business crime seems to occur most readily in:

During the 1980s, the level of criminal investigative and prosecutorial resources directed at environmental crime expanded considerably.

In many white collar crime cases, defense attorneys hire private investigators to gather information helpful to them.

The prosecution of white collar crime cases became a much greater priority for the U.S.Department of Justice beginning in the:

White collar offenders who have victimized the government are least likely to be fined.

A basic rationale for the special prosecutor position was to allow high-profile, politically sensitive cases to be pursued without fear of political interference from the Justice Department.

At the sentencing stage, white collar crime defense lawyers typically play a smaller and more limited role than they do in conventional crime cases.

Which of the following is not a factor that seems to attract attorneys to represent people accused of white collar crime?

White collar crime defendants are more likely to do which of the following than defendants in conventional crime cases?

Corporate offenders and white collar criminals are generally less likely to obtain reversals of convictions on appeal than are conventional offenders.

According to a survey reported in the text, the great majority of state attorney generals do not believe they have jurisdiction in white collar crime cases.

Which of the following is true of judicial sentencing in white collar crime cases?

According to the text, judges are uniformly more lenient with convicted white collar crime defendants than with convicted conventional crime defendants.

Trial jurors find it overwhelmingly easy to discriminate between collective and individual accountability in white collar criminal cases.

The death penalty has never been imposed on a convicted white collar offender in the United States.

In the current era, the Justice Department has increasingly used deferred prosecution agreements with corporate offenders.Which of the following is not true about these agreements?