White-Collar Crime in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain

<p>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 £80000 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'.</p>