How does criminologist, Gerber, explain what is perceived by some to be unusually high sentences for white-collar offenders?

a. White-collar offenders are sentenced according to federal guidelines
b. Very few white-collar offenders ever make it through the criminal justice process and when they do it
is because there is substantial evidence against them, which leads to harsher sentences
c. There are only a small proportion of offenders with extremely large sentences, but those offenders raise
the average dramatically and give the perception that all white-collar offenders have particularly long
sentences
d. All of the above


b. Very few white-collar offenders ever make it through the criminal justice process and when they do it
is because there is substantial evidence against them, which leads to harsher sentences

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