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Proposed methods involved collection of twenty-one predictor variables from seven federal district court's presentencing reports for defendants convicted of one of eight specific types of white collar crimes.

Zeidner (1994) reported that the new federal crime bill, approved in 1994, will breathe new life into federal law enforcement agencies even as it gives states more money for crime fighting programs. She states that the bill's funding comes from a unique source: savings achieved through personnel cuts at federal agencies. These savings are theoretically to be placed in a newly created trust fund from which state and local governments, as well as federal agencies, will draw annually. The federal government's largest role in carrying out the crime bill will be as a conduit between state and local governments and the trust fund, with some $28 billion in grants authorized over the next 6 years. However, the bi

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al offender. Watkins (1987) states that contemporary legal sanctions are utilized only in those cases in which the public senses a real threat to its collective security and often threat is not fully perceived with respect to white collar crime. For most juries, for example, the crime problem is seen essentially as consisting of violent interpersonal offenses; the criminal law, predictably, has reacted to this form of deviance with its commonplace sanctions. On the other hand, crimes subsumed under the white-collar heading are often only lightly sanctioned even when brought to the attention of prosecuting authorities. The reason for this state of affairs, Watkins (1987) reports is largely a unidimensional theory of crime causation--that crime qua crime is a problem peculiar to the lower socio-economic strata of society. White-collar offenders, coming as they generally do from the more affluent sector, are not perceived as criminals in the classic sense. Because jurors perceive crime as directly associated with a societal stratum that does not include the majority of white-collar criminals, they are reluctant to convict such criminals even when the law has been clearly violated. What is particularly interesting about
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