Since the late twentieth century, new criminal policies have emerged which have
substantially restructured the global effort to fight crime. These anti-crime strategies eschew …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the increasing emphasis of the UK anti-money
laundering (AML) legislative framework, on the financial arrangements of criminals. Our …

Organised crime is a pernicious problem in many contemporary societies. Asset-focussed
interventions have been deployed with increasing frequency in a range of jurisdictions to …

Non-conviction-based (NCB) asset forfeiture is a relatively recent addition to law
enforcement's armoury in the fight against organised crime in the UK. It allows for criminal …

The policy and practice of confiscating criminal assets to control crime and recover illicit
wealth has come to occupy a central position in national and international policing and …

Purpose This paper aims to advocate the development and re-emphasis of “epistemic virtue”
in relevant professional ethical codes so that attention is re-focussed on the responsibility of …

Purpose This paper aims to highlight the persistent influence of the concept of “predicate
offence” in respect of how the crime of money laundering is conceived and discussed, and to …

This chapter explores the approach to AML, mapping its evolution from the US and the war
on drugs in the early 1980s through to the establishment of the FATF and global regulatory …

The present paper aims to provide a comprehensive yet critical overview of current Brazilian
legislation on money-laundering prevention and control. Given that stripping criminals of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the effect of the growing informal
financial sector (IFS) on the effectiveness of anti-criminal finance laws. Specifically, the …