While some scholars disagree, the retired justice is also persuasive that execution serves no "significant deterrent purposes," especially since long delays in many executions undermine any potential for deterrence.
"In the short term certain cases against individuals will not provide as robust of a monetary return... pursuing individual action will result in significant long term deterrence," Yates wrote.
"In the short term certain cases against individuals will not provide as robust of a monetary return," Yates wrote, while advising DOJ staffers that "pursuing individual action will result in significant long term deterrence".
Despite his criticism of the sentencing guidelines, Judge Rakoff has also acknowledged that deterrence plays a significant role in sentencing for insider trading.
The alliance as a whole should reaffirm its reliance on the U.S. nuclear umbrella and on extended deterrence — even after significant cuts as a consequence of further arms control agreements.
And he considers deterrence more important than the fines themselves.
Deterrence: An Important Tool.
Margaret Cole, director of enforcement and financial crime at the FSA, said: "Our actions in banning Simon Treacher and imposing a significant fine will send a powerful message of deterrence to others who might be tempted to behave in this way".
In a survey of nine species in the blennocampine tribe Phymatocerini, Boevé & Schaffner [ 40] found a statistically highly significant negative correlation between integument resistance and hemolymph deterrence, that is, the less the integument is resistant to a standardized mechanical stress, the more ants are deterred by the hemolymph, and vice versa.
