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John Hagan, Ilene H. Nagel, Celesta Albonetti, The Differential Sentencing of White-Collar Offenders in Ten Federal District Courts, American Sociological Review, Vol. 45, No. 5 (Oct., 1980), pp. 802-820
Hagan et al. (Wed,) studied this question.