Punishing White-Collar Crime in Canada: Issues With the Economic Model of Crime and Punishment
Journal: Alberta Law Review
Year: 2021

White-collar crime differs from other types of crime in both how the public perceives it and the socio-economic standing of the typical perpetrators. Nevertheless, white-collar crime has significant negative social and economic effects. In formulating deterrents against white-collar crimes, economic models using cost-benefit analyses that fix relative values to fines and incarceration have been influential. However, these economic models are not in keeping with judicial sentencing in Canada and