Author : John Benson
Release : 2019-12-06
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 794/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis White-Collar Crime in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain by : John Benson
Download or read book White-Collar Crime in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain written by John Benson. This book was released on 2019-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.