Moral disengagement persists through court-sanctioned scapegoat narratives rather than contrition

Evidence

In another letter to his girlfriend, Tourre boasted that he sold risky bonds to “widows and orphans”—Wall Street euphemisms for unsuspecting investors. Tourre was convicted of defrauding investors in mortgage investments and fined just under $1 million (Raymond & Stempel, 2014). Prosecutors characterized him as lacking “contrition or appreciation of his misconduct.” His defense lawyers, who argued for a smaller fine, portrayed him as a “scapegoat” who was treated unjustly. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1512

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1512
• XREF: connects to: Official injustice compounds wrongdoing when judges dehumanize victims as primitive. — Bernhard Leidner et al., Ingroup Glorification, Moral…, 29