ABSTRACT
At the beginning of these, possibly controversial, chapters it may be as well to ask the reader to keep in mind the special purpose of this book. We are not here concerned with the criminological question of the economic causes of crime, which will therefore be touched upon only occasionally. In accordance with the programme as set out in the Introduction, it is our primary object to examine the effect which contemporary changes in values have so far exerted on economic crime and its treatment by the law, and to point out the practical handicaps in the path of the legal machinery and the direction in which things are likely to move in the post-war period.
