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Boardroom scandal : the criminalization of company fraud in nineteenth-century Britain /

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This title considers the role played by the criminal law in regulating the economy, posing the question: should businessmen who commit fraud go to prison? It explores changing approaches to the question of criminal sanctions in Victorian Britain and the economic, social, political, and legal origins...

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Main Author: Taylor, James, 1976-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Fraud > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Commercial law > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Trials (Fraud) > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Fraude > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Procès (Fraude) > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
TRUE CRIME > White Collar Crime.
Commercial law
Fraud
Trials (Fraud)
Great Britain
Crime.
1800-1899
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Company fraud in historical perspective
  • The morals of mania : the 1820s
  • Mismanagement or fraud? : the 1830s
  • Baffling fraud : the 1840s
  • Criminalizing fraud : the 1850s
  • One law for the rich? : the 1860s
  • Offences against the State : the 1870s
  • A mixed economy of prosecutions : the 1880s
  • Regulating the City : the 1890s
  • Epilogue : following the Victorian path.