What Went Wrong with Money Laundering Law?

Author: Peter Alldridge
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Category: True Crime Biographies, True Crime Books, Crime & Criminology, Organized Crime, Military & Defence Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Financial Law, Taxation & Duties Law
Book Format: Paperback

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 the entire 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.

Peter Alldridge is Drapers' Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London, UK, since 2003. He is the author of Relocating Criminal Law (2000) and Money Laundering Law (2003) and a wide range of articles. He specializes in financial crime.

Table Of Contents
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?.
About Peter Alldridge
Peter Alldridge is Drapers' Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London, UK, since 2003. He is the author of Relocating Criminal Law (2000) and Money Laundering Law (2003) and a wide range of articles. He specializes in financial crime.

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