Incentivizing Injustice: The 2008 Financial Crisis and Prosecutorial Indiscretion - Hardcover

by Sari Krieger (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Sari Krieger is professor of political science at the University at Albany and the City University of New York.