White-Collar Crime in Modern England
Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845–1929
- Author: George Robb, St Bonaventure University, New York
- Date Published: October 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521526128
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In the period between the 1840s and the 1920s the British economy was transformed, from small-scale capitalism dominated by individual traders and partnerships to a complex financial structure dominated by large, joint-stock companies. The tremendous growth of big business created a world of new opportunities for criminal exploitation. The promotion and management of public companies and the trading of commercial securities proved vulnerable to the white-collar crimes of fraud and embezzlement. Problems of financial fraud were exacerbated by a climate of laissez-faire which championed the most permissive commercial legislation in the world, and white-collar crime wreaked havoc on the modern British economy. This new book examines the spread of white-collar crime from the Victorian period to the early twentieth century and offers a new perspective on modern scandals.
Read more- An original and pioneering study of 'white-collar' crime which corrects the notion crime is a mainly working-class phenomenon
- Relates historical white-collar crime to recent affairs such as the Guinness trial and the BCCI scandal
- Contains many fascinating case-studies of business fraud and embezzlement - related in gripping detail
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- Date Published: October 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521526128
- length: 264 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.427kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The new economy: transformation of finance and opportunities for crime
2. The railway mania
3. Banking and credit fraud
4. Stock fraud
5. Company fraud: promotion
6. Company fraud: management
7. Company law and the courts
8. Business ethics and professionalization
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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