Origins of Modern Financial Crime - Historical Foundations and Current Problems in Britain

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Wilson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2016
• EAN: 9781138687714
• ISBN: 978-1-138-68771-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Legal History, Social & cultural history, British & Irish history, Legal History, Social and cultural history, Corporate crime, Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Legal aspects of criminology, Criminal justice law, Criminology: legal aspects