| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed Apr 9, 2013). |
| Summary |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fraud -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Fraud. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Commercial law -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Trials (Fraud) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Trials (Fraud) |
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Commercial law. |
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TRUE CRIME -- White Collar Crime. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Taylor, James, 1976- Boardroom scandal. 1st ed. Oxford : Oxford Univ Press 2013 9780199695799 (DLC) 2013370652 (OCoLC)819383012 |
| ISBN |
9780191649196 (electronic book) |
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0191649198 (electronic book) |
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9780191749520 |
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0191749524 |
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9780199695799 |
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0199695792 |
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