Navigating financial crashes of the Late Middle Ages up to the
present day and analysing them through the lenses of classical,
positivist, functionalist and Marxist criminology, Dirty Money: On
Financial Delinquency explores the growth of grey areas in the
financial world and our understanding, or misunderstanding, of
financial delinquency. Pope Francis, while denouncing the
incapacity of governments to reduce poverty and fight the
exploitation of cheap labour, has also condemned greed, repeating
several times the old medieval adage: money is the excrement of the
devil. This distinction between clean and excremental, pure and
impure, informs the symbolic order of many traditional and
contemporary societies; however, it can also be used to single out
criminal activity as opposed to law-abiding conduct and, in
particular, to separate acceptable from unacceptable practices in
the economic domain. With a focus on financial crime, whose
ambiguity, ubiquity and evolving nature make the separation between
acceptable and unacceptable practices inherently problematic, this
book examines the process whereby the excrement of the devil was
slowly 'freed' from both its sinful and criminal character. It is a
study of how human action turns something seemingly benign into an
instrument for the production of harm. Its focus, therefore, is on
dirty money - namely the illegitimate appropriation of financial
resources by individuals and groups holding expert knowledge and,
often, occupying positions of power. The ideological arguments
accompanying this evolution are scrutinised, alongside the history
of financial initiatives and the accompanying 'crunches'. The
struggle juxtaposing criminalization and decriminalization is at
the core of all chapters, which analyse a series of major events
chronologically, from the exploits of John Law to the deeds of
contemporary finance. Analytically located in the area of
white-collar crime, Dirty Money examines episodes of financial
delinquency and discusses the way in which observers, including
criminologists, shape an understanding of their causes and
consequences. It will be of interest to scholars and students of
criminology, sociology, criminal justice, history, and economics,
as well as policy makers, finance professionals, and fraud
investigators.
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