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Neoliberal ideology makes the claim that prison is necessary to dissuade working class people from committing crimes. Whereas embarrassment and the tort system is sufficient for dissuading the management classes. Since we live in a neoliberal system it stands that this guy will go to jail and his bosses will perhaps pay fines.

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You can't be serious? Are you!? please tell me that you have a source.

That's an entirely reasonable summary of the prevailing economic ideology in the US. Res ipsa loquitur.

Don't you see the news?? Check for any scandal, there is your source.

I'm serious actually. Some references to Richard Posner (Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)

https://books.google.com/books?id=A7IRDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA186&lpg=...

http://www.masonlec.org/site/rte_uploads/files/Hylton_crimec...

Just a note to say your second link gives me a "Oops! That page can’t be found." page.

#$%$!

http://www.masonlec.org/site/rte_uploads/files/ Hylton_crimecon.pdf

If you take a look at the second link URL, it is just doubly concatenated -- just delete the second copy, and it works just fine.

The work cited appears to be http://ius.bg.ac.rs/prof/Materijali/jovmio/DS_PrimeriMetodol...

Are YOU serious? Have you been paying attention?

If an individual is found guilty of money laundering for a drug cartel they go to jail forever. When a bank does it they get fined (HSBC).

I think his incredulity was that anyone openly holds this opinion (I was surprised myself), not that this is how things work in practice.

How is that surprising? I don't understand. Prison sentences work as dissuasion. How else can you send a message to people to not commit those crimes?

Not saying it's a good solution, but it's one way to prevent crime.

I think you only read the first sentence in the comment (which really ought to end with a comma rather than a period).

Very well put mister.

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