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White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845 1929

White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845 1929

Robb, George
George, Robb

Paperback

General LawBritish HistoryTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0521526124
ISBN13: 9780521526128
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 18 2002
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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