 White-Collar Crime Defense StrategiesPetter Gottschalk Chapter 3 in Financial Crime and Knowledge Workers, 2014, pp 55-75 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Three themes are particularly noteworthy when distinguishing white-collar crime defense strategies from other defense strategies for lawyers. First, the role of white-collar criminal lawyers is radically different from the typical criminal lawyer who defends persons charged with street crime. For instance, the former spend far more time on each case, both in terms of workload and in terms of calendar time. This implies that a white-collar crime lawyer works on fewer cases in parallel. The white-collar lawyer gets a case much earlier and is far more likely to keep charges from being filed. Second, information control is at the center of the white-collar crime attorney’s work. The lawyer is concerned with acquisition of crucial information and keeps damaging information out of the hands of police investigators and public prosecutors. A third theme centers on a major dilemma of these lawyers: how to vigorously defend the client without thereby becoming a party to the criminal act (Kiser, 1986). Keywords: Information Source; Information Control; Knowledge Worker; Defense Strategy; Crime Scene (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-38716-5_4 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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