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Part of the book series: Organization, Management and Crime - Organisation, Management und Kriminalität (OMC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This work is dedicated to map the modes of thinking and acting of legal professionals who work in white-collar crime. Lawyers, whose decisions generate economic and political consequences, stand at a strategic location between the state and key segments of society. This monograph’s approach is linked to the foundations of the sociology of knowledge, that culture antecedes and anchors social action. It starts by reconstructing the worldviews that legal professionals hold about corruption and its main participants, and then advances to examine decision-making. The author is introducing an innovative dataset comprised of interviews, court records and biographical data to investigate Brazilian lawyers (1985-2021). The study’s qualitative findings show a professional cognitive pattern that is apolitical and technical, and criticizes unskilled people working in the state administration more than businesspeople. The dominant mindset understands corporate-state relations as a self-feeding system that requires qualification and awareness of international trends to counter crime. The decision-making patterns confirm: (i) that prosecutors and judges prioritize the ends, fighting corruption, and use existing legislation and organizational resources to secure verdicts; (ii) the asymmetries between how bribe-payers and bribe-payees are treated.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Maria Eugenia Trombini is a researcher at the Max Weber Institute of Sociology conducting work on organizational crime and systemic corruption.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Legal Professionals in White-Collar Crime
Book Subtitle: Knowing, Thinking and Acting
Authors: Maria Eugenia Trombini
Series Title: Organization, Management and Crime - Organisation, Management und Kriminalität
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40747-6
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Social Science and Law (German Language)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-40746-9Published: 26 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-40747-6Published: 25 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2945-9842
Series E-ISSN: 2945-9850
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 260
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Sciences, general