Keywords
High status, female, white-collar, Martha Stewart, Betty Vinson, Kathleen Winter, Paula Rieker, corporate, scandal, offenders, Lil' Kim
Abstract
This Article analyzes white-collar female crime and compares several high profile cases to those of regular female offenders. It uses government statistical data on female crime to paint a portrait of the female offender. It then compares the prosecution of "street-level" and white-collar female offenders. The Article discusses the prosecutions of Martha Stewart, Betty, Vinson, and Lea Fastow. The Article argues that these women often share a similar trait of committing the crime out of loyalty to a man engaged in wrong-doing.
Recommended Citation
Michelle S. Jacobs,
Loyalt's Reward - A Felony Conviction: Recent Prosecutions of High-Status Female Offenders,
33 Fordham Urb. L.J. 843
(2006).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol33/iss3/4