The Origins of Modern Financial Crime
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-68771-4 (ISBN)
The analysis in this text focuses primarily on how Victorian society perceived and responded to crime and its perpetrators, with its reactions to financial crime specifically couched within this. It is proposed that examining how financial misconduct became recognised as crime during Victorian times makes this an important contribution to nineteenth-century history. Beyond this, the analysis underlines that a historical perspective is essential for comprehending current issues raised by the ‘fight’ against financial crime, represented and analysed in law and criminology as matters of enormous intellectual and practical significance, even helping to illuminate the benefits and potential pitfalls which can be encountered in current moves for extending the reach of criminal liability for financial misconduct.
Sarah Wilson’s text on this highly topical issue will be essential reading for criminologists, legal scholars and historians alike. It will also be of great interest to the general reader.
The Origins of Modern Financial Crime was short-listed for the Wadsworth Prize 2015.
Sarah Wilson is an academic lawyer with a background also in history. She has worked on financial crime, both as it affects society today and in its historical origins, for the last ten years. A full time academic, she has worked at Leeds, Keele and Manchester Universities and is currently at the School of Law at York University.
Introduction 1. The search for the ‘lexicon’ of financial crime: ‘business crime’ in legal definition and societal consciousness 2. The ‘problem’ of financial crime: interdisciplinary perspectives on historiographical representations 3. Business, crime and ‘status’: what is missing from current understanding? 4. Locating Victorian experiences of financial crime in a ‘trajectory’ – forwards and backwards 5. Victorian responses to financial crime – illustrating ‘transformative understandings’ of crime? 6. The rhetoric of capitalism and the language of criminal proceedings: a ‘different’ type of deviance and the search for the ‘lexicon’ of financial crime 7. Anxiety, Determination and Businessmen as [criminal] Policymakers 8. The ‘lexicon’ of financial crime in the twenty-first century understood as a complex legacy of Victorian experiences.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.06.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 385 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-68771-5 / 1138687715 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-68771-4 / 9781138687714 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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