The Origins of Modern Financial Crime
Visible Lessons from Invisible Crimes
By Sarah Wilson
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge – 256 pages
Series: Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
Description
The current global financial crisis has focused much attention on the conduct, and indeed misconduct of those who operate within financial systems, and the importance of putting in place regulation which is capable of preventing future ‘shocks’ through promoting so called ‘systemic’ stability. From the earliest stages of the crisis, much of the spotlight on future approaches to financial sector regulation has become fixed on institutions and individuals involved in banking activity. This was sometime ahead of the latest raft of scandals, most centrally the exposure of LIBOR fixing, which has ensured that discussions about responding to banker misconduct using criminal enforcement are now at centre-stage.
This book offers an extensive study of fraud trials from the nineteenth century, examines the social processes that informed this and shows how the way that financial crime impacted upon Victorian society is essential for gaining true appreciation of the "fight against fraud" in twenty-first century Britain.
Contents
Introduction, 1. Financial crime in modern Britain: in search of legal definition and societal construction, 2. The ‘problem’ of white collar crime: historical perspective and representation, 3. Business, crime and ‘status’: what is missing from current understanding?, 4. Locating Victorian experiences of financial crime in a "trajectory", 5.Respectability and responsibility: Victorian responses, the rhetoric of capitalism and the language of criminal proceedings, 6. A ‘special’ type of deviance and the identification of a ‘different type’ of crime: illuminating the Victorian heritage and anticipating continuing difficulties, 7. Criminal liability, Victorian ideas on respectability and social location, and the ‘paradox of lenience and severity’, 8. Criminal liability and business morality : the legacy of business men as criminal law-makers, 9. Manifestations of a "20th century crisis" understood as a complex legacy of Victorian experiences, 10. Respecting Victorian heritage and making purchase on the future, Epilogue: The future for research into the history of white collar crime
Name: The Origins of Modern Financial Crime: Visible Lessons from Invisible Crimes (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: By Sarah Wilson. The current global financial crisis has focused much attention on the conduct, and indeed misconduct of those who operate within financial systems, and the importance of putting in place regulation which is capable of preventing future...
Categories: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice History, White Collar Crime, British History, Social & Cultural History, Criminology - Law, Historical Criminology - Criminology Law, White Collar Crime - Forms of Crime, Criminal Justice