Key Reading

• Clive Emsley, Crime and Society, 1750-1900, chapter 6

Further Reading

• Gregory Anderson, Victorian Clerks, chapter 3
• D. Andrew and R. McGowen, The Perreaus and Mrs Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century London
• Robert Colley, ‘The Shoreditch tax frauds : a study of the relationship between the state and civil society in 1860’, Historical Research, 78 (2005), pp. 540-62.
• Jason Ditton, 'Perks, pilferage and the fiddle: the historical structure of an invisible wage', Theory and Society, 4 (1977), pp. 39-71
• Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor (eds), Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History, especially chapters 4-7
• Phil Handler, ‘Forgery and the End of the 'Bloody Code'; in Early Nineteenth-Century England’, Historical Journal, 48:3 (2005), pp. 683–702.
• Michael Jones, Creative Accounting, Fraud and International Accounting Scandals, chapter 7

• Peter King, 'Gleaners, farmers and the failure of legal sanctions in England, 1750-1850', Past and Present, 125 (1989), pp. 116-50
• John Locker, '"Quiet thieves, quiet punishment": Private responses to the "respectable offender"', Crime, History and Societies, 9 (2005), pp. 9-31
• R. McGowen, ‘From Pillory to Gallows: The Punishment of Forgery in the Age of the Financial Revolution’, Past and Present, 165 (1999), pp. 107–140.
• Nicola Phillips, 'A Case Study of the Impact of Crime on the Criminal Justice System', Crime, Histoires et Societe, 2013

• George Robb, White-collar crime in modern England
• Rob Sindall, 'Middle-class crime in nineteenth-century England', Criminal Justice History, 4 (1983), pp. 23-40
• James Taylor, 'Watchdogs or Apologists', Historical Research, 2012
• Sarah Wilson, 'Law, Morality and Regulation : Victorian Experiences of Financial Crime', British Journal of Criminology, 46 (2006)

Questions

• How widespread was whitecollar crime in Victorian England?
• What was the response of the courts?
• Why were many employers reluctant to prosecute fraudulent employees?
• Do 'imposter' and fraud cases reflect anxieties of the newly industrialised nation?