Sarah Wilson

The Origins of Modern Financial Crime (eBook, ePUB)

Historical foundations and current problems in Britain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The recent global financial crisis has been characterised as a turning point in the way we respond to financial crime. Focusing on this change and 'crime in the commercial sphere', this text considers the legal and economic dimensions of financial crime and its significance in societal consciousness in twenty-first century Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136237720
• Artikelnr.: 41066416

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.