The avoidance of punishment: A legal-bureaucratic model of suspended sentences in federal white-collar cases prior to the federal sentencing guidelines

Social Forces

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 303-329

  Albonetti, Celesta A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

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EID: 22844454772     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/78.1.303     Document Type: Article

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