{"id":247,"date":"2007-07-11T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/07\/11\/the-white-collar-execution-of-zheng-xiaoyu\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T18:49:00","slug":"the-white-collar-execution-of-zheng-xiaoyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/07\/11\/the-white-collar-execution-of-zheng-xiaoyu\/","title":{"rendered":"the white-collar execution of zheng xiaoyu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/534-zheng.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085802528353120834\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/535-zheng.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>zheng xiaoyu has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-execute11jul11,1,3834738.story?coll=la-headlines-world\">executed<\/a>. the former head of china&#8217;s food and drug safety agency had been convicted of accepting bribes from pharmaceutical companies this may.<\/p>\n<p>leftist criminologists often rail against the light sentences given to white-collar criminals in the united states, particularly when measured against the lengthy prison time served by those convicted of street crimes. this sort of <em>disproportionality <\/em>case is most convincing with respect to drug convictions and property crimes. it doesn&#8217;t take a marxist to notice that poor people who steal $2,000 worth of property sometimes do longer (<em>and harder<\/em>)<em> <\/em>time than executives who steal $2,000,000 emptying a pension fund.<\/p>\n<p>i suppose that a few criminologists will read zheng xiaoyu&#8217;s execution as evidence that an appropriate consideration of <em>social harm<\/em> has been given its due weight at sentencing. more cynically, of course, most of us will interpret this execution as signaling that <em>scapegoats will be found and crucified<\/em> whenever big-time market interests are threatened &#8212; in china, as elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>either way, i doubt that this execution will do much to purge the diethylene glycol from your counterfeit colgate or the melamine from your cat food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>zheng xiaoyu has been executed. the former head of china&#8217;s food and drug safety agency had been convicted of accepting bribes from pharmaceutical companies this may. leftist criminologists often rail against the light sentences given to white-collar criminals in the united states, particularly when measured against the lengthy prison time served by those convicted of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}