White-collar offenders after criminal justice involvement

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

As white-collar crime no longer enjoys full impunity, the criminal justice system will continue to face the challenge of how to handle this ‘unusual’ offender category. Limited but quickly growing body of research studies white-collar offenders as defendants, prisoners, parolees and ex-convicts. Four years after the ASC conference panel on convicted white-collar criminals, we will meet in Florence to bring the debate to the European context and take stock of the most recent research findings. Specifically we will use a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to make sense of what happens to white-collar offenders after their contact with the criminal justice system.

Subtopic

• Topic 2: Types of Offending / White collar Crime, Organizational Crime, Corporate Crime, Financial Crime

Chair

• Andrzej Uhl, Cambridge University

Individual Presentations

• Formal and informal exclusion of prosecuted white-collar offenders - Wim Huisman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Dennis Lesmeister, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

• White Collar Offenders and the Impact of Conviction - Mark Button, University of Portsmouth

• Narrative Criminology and White-Collar Offenders - Ben Hunter, University of Greenwich

• What will they think of me? Stigmatization among a sample of white-collar offenders - Diana Sun, Florida Atlantic University; Michael Benson, University of Cincinnati

• The role of capital in white-collar offenders’ reentry - Andrzej Uhl, Cambridge University