In what sense do the foregoing cases involve moral ambiguity?
Are there different forms of ambiguity that they reflect?
What causes such ambiguity? What are its effects? Does the
ambiguity reflect the way in which we regard the people who
engage in such acts, or the way we perceive the acts themselves?
Does such ambiguity pose a problem for the criminal law? Can
the problem be fixed? Each of the five cases identified above is
complex, and generalizations are bound to be difficult. They
involve a wide range of quite different statutes, perpetrators, victims,
harms, and mitigating and aggravating circumstances. It
will not be possible to offer anything like a comprehensive assessment
here. Instead, I want to identify ten overlapping and mutually
reinforcing factors that are, in an admittedly imprecise way,
characteristic of white collar crime more generally.