Incentivizing injustice : the 2008 financial crisis and prosecutorial indiscretion / Sari Krieger.

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]

ix, 133 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - City University of New York, 2021) issued under title: Incentivizing Injustice : Why No High-Level Executive Prosecutions from the Financial Crisis.

"Why did no important banking executives face criminal prosecution for the 2008 financial crisis? This book seeks to answer this question by focusing on the incentives faced by the federal prosecutors who would have been tasked with bringing these cases, but instead settled for safer plea agreements"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Krieger, Rivera, 1981- Incentivizing injustice Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2023]

English

May 07, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index.