Punishment
In the United States, sentences for white-collar crimes may include a combination of imprisonment, fines, restitution, community service, disgorgement, probation, or other alternative punishment. These punishments grew harsher after the Jeffery Skilling and Enron Scandal, when the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush, defining new crimes and increasing the penalties for crimes such as mail and wire fraud. In other countries, such as China, white-collar criminals can be given the death penalty. Questions about sentencing disparity in white-collar crime continue to be debated.
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I shall achieve in time—
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“It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.”
—St. Augustine (354–430)