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Prosecuting London’s Fraudsters 1760-1820

Swindlers, Tricksters and the Law

Av Cerian Griffiths

1228 kr

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Fraud is often thought of as a very modern-day crime. This book traces the historical beginnings of fraudulent activity, identifying fraud offences, its prosecutors and its punishments in late 18th and early 19th century London.In studying how fraud was prosecuted, Griffiths demonstrates how financial crime was shaped over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries. Using under-studied manuscript court records, Prosecuting London’s Fraudsters unveils how, and for whom, the criminal justice system operated in the 18th century and exposes its role in sowing the early seeds of capitalism. Centring on Old Bailey records, City of London officials’ notes, government financial records and more obscure materials from contemporary practitioners, this book traces the prosecution of fraud from the lowest to the highest criminal courts in London, offering a holistic view of fraud prosecution in the Georgian period and a better understanding of the history of financial crime.
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Cerian Griffiths is Lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Lancaster University, UK. Her research focuses on all aspect of criminal prosecutions from the 18th century to the modern day. She is particularly interested in the prosecution of financial crime and has published widely on the historical prosecution of fraud.

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“An absorbing account of fraudulent themes and devices which cascade down through the ages. The parallels between modern identity, phishing and online frauds have their origins in the coffee shops of eighteenth-century London. The machinery of the Law may have changed but the ingenuity of the swindler endures. Dr Griffiths is both incisive and entertaining in her style, but the book effectively poses a perhaps uncomfortable rhetorical question- will we ever learn?An essential read for Practitioners, students and anyone interested in the history and development of fraud and the Courts ability or otherwise to deal with such conduct effectively.”

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