| Title | : | White-Collar Crime in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | John Benson |
| Release | : | 2019-12-06 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | History, Books, European History, Nonfiction, True Crime, Professional & Technical, Law, Social Science |
| Size | : | 1204800 |
| 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'. |
