ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the analysis of the significance of nineteenth-century responses to financial crime for twenty-first century Britain. The chapter even endorses the significant attributions made to conditions associated with twentieth and twenty-first-century living. It argues that examining Victorian experiences of financial crime helps not simply to locate the public lexicon qualities of white-collar crime to times predating the twentieth century but also that this helps to explain the significance of the lexicon for society today. Thus, at one level its presentation of Victorian experiences of financial crime is a pursuit with an end-game of enriching understanding of nineteenth-century Britain. The chapter explains that fraud represents a twentieth century crisis significantly on account that its discovery was so problematic for the society initially having to respond to activity which we can recognise today, and which we can also align with current experiences on what its implications are.
