The Origins of Modern Financial Crime : Routledge : 9780415627634 : 041562763X : 29 May 2014 : The recent global financial crisis has been characterised as a turning point in the way we respond to financial crime. Focusing on this change and ?crime in the commercial sphere', this text considers the legal and economic dimensions of financial crime and its significance in societal consciousness in twenty-first century Britain. Considering how strongly criminal enforcement specifically features in identifying the post-crisis years as a ?turning point', it argues that nineteenth-century encounters with financial crime were transformative for contemporary British societal perceptions of ?crime' and its perpetrators, and have lasting resonance for legal responses and societal reactions today. The analysis in this text focuses primarily on how Victorian society perceived and responded to crime and its perpetrators, with its reactions to financial crime specifically couched within this. It is