Nathan Pierce is a professor of criminal justice at a major research university, where he specializes in white-collar sentencing disparities and the political economy of financial crime prosecution. He has published in the Stanford Law Review, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and the Yale Journal on Regulation. At ConFraud, he writes opinion and analysis pieces that bridge academic research and public understanding — explaining why certain fraudsters get probation while others get decades, how prosecutorial discretion shapes which crimes get investigated, and what reform could actually look like. He holds a Ph.D. in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Twenty-two months into a $200,000-a-year job as Chief Operating Officer of a thriving La Jolla software company, Joshua Paul Lintz allegedly began dismantling it from the inside -- downloading thousands of confidential files, deleting 130 client projects, and incorporating a competing company that would generate $12 million in its first year using the stolen assets.
The second annual White Collar Conference is set for October 11, bringing together legal scholars, advocates, and those who have lived through the system to tackle one of criminal justice's most overlooked questions: what happens after the sentence ends?