Boardroom scandal the criminalization of company fraud in nineteenth-century Britain
by
Taylor, James, 1976-
Title
:
Boardroom scandal the criminalization of company fraud in nineteenth-century Britain
Author
:
Taylor, James, 1976-
ISBN
:
9780191649196
Personal Author
:
Taylor, James, 1976-
Edition
:
1st ed.
Publication Information
:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
:
1 online resource (300 p.) : ill.
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.
Abstract
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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 of these reforms, and their main effects.
Subject Term
:
Fraud -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Commercial law -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Trials (Fraud) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
TRUE CRIME / White Collar Crime
Commercial law. (OCoLC)fst00869502
Fraud. (OCoLC)fst00933786
Trials (Fraud) (OCoLC)fst01156337
Geographic Term
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Genre
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Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic Access
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| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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| IYTE Library | E-Book | 530043-1001 | HV6771 .G8 T39 2013 | Online |