This book throws new light on white-collar crime, criminals and criminality in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. It does so by considering the life of one man, Jesse Varley (1869–1929), who embezzled more than £80,000 from Wolverhampton Corporation, and for a decade and more enjoyed an ostentatiously extravagant lifestyle. He was discovered, and despite serving a period of penal servitude, he turned again to white-collar crime (this time in Sheffield). Sentenced again to penal servitude, he died a few years later in Liverpool in what were said to be 'very poor circumstances'.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781032083049
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-032-08304-9
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Erscheinungstermin: 02.08.2021
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2021
- Serie: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 222 g
- Seiten: 152
- Format (B x H x T): 156 x 234 x 8 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt