Madoff – Criminal Law Limits and Bernie Madoff – Life in Prison – Is it Fair For All Concerned?
Criminal law is an interesting philosophical study if you step away from all the laws, rules, and regulations that are written within all the pages of all the law books, codes, and regs. You see there is a limit to criminal justice, and a limit to criminal law. For instance, if someone kills 30 people in an explosion or terrorist act, you can sentence them to death, but then in the end, is their punishment really fair to all the damage they have caused? The punishment didn’t fit the crime, they got off too easy.
And this also goes for corporate crime, for instance in the case of Bernie Madoff, the infamous world record holder for a Ponzi scheme. Apparently, he stole over $50 billion, and claimed he had invested this money, which was worth 150 billion by now. Many people lost their entire life savings and it ruined so many lives. His punishment will probably be life in prison, but he has already led such a wonderful life at the top of the food chain for so many years and he is an old man now.
Is this fair for all concerned? Absolutely not. Even if we were to sentence him to death that really wouldn’t justify a fair punishment for all that hurt he has caused so many people. Not to mention all the nonprofit groups that had to shut down and all the good they can no longer do.
There are ciminal law limits and life in prison or even capital punishment sometimes does not suffice. Perhaps we need to consider this, and figure out a more just way to punish people who do so much damage to our society and civilization.
Lance Winslow – Lance Winslow’s Bio. Lance Winslow is also Founder of the Car Wash Guys, a cool little Franchise Company; http://www.carwashguys.com/history/founder.html/.
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