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- Title: White-Collar Crime in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain
- Author : John Benson
- Release Date : January 06, 2019
- Genre: History,Books,Europe,Nonfiction,True Crime,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1204 KB
Description
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'.