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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253325603321

Autore

Alldridge Peter

Titolo

What Went Wrong With Money Laundering Law? / / by Peter Alldridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2016

ISBN

9781137525369

1137525363

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXI, 81 p.)

Disciplina

364

Soggetti

Crime - Sociological aspects

Organized crime

Criminal law

Taxation - Law and legislation

Crime and Society

Organized Crime

Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law

Fiscal Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction and a Short History -- What Does Laundering Look Like? -- Building on Sand: The Development of the AML Narrative -- Impacts upon Substantive Laundering Law -- Resultant Law -- Consequences and Prescriptions -- What Is To Be Done?.

Sommario/riassunto

This book surveys the development of laws surrounding the crime of money laundering and the associated changes in the anti-money laundering (AML) industry. The policy of attempting to deal with crime by attacking its financial products started in the arena of drugs, but quickly moved to organised crime, terrorism, corruption and tax. Now the focus has shifted once again to organised crime and to immigration. In the wake of the failure of the 'war on drugs' a huge amount of money is now being spent on a global surveillance and reporting system, and we do not know whether the system works or not. What Went Wrong With Money Laundering Law? documents the events which, taken independently, could each be seen as rational



responses to specific problems and as incremental adjustments to the focus of the law. Taken together, however, it is demonstrated that they have led to significant changes in the law and to the current situation. Underlying theentire AML industry is the crime of money laundering, which, having been devised more to provide a trigger for the reporting machinery than to describe and condemn a particular category of harmful behaviour, is now being used in a far wider range of cases than is appropriate. This book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners of criminal and financial law, socio-legal studies and criminology.