Assets, Crimes and the State

Katie Benson is Lecturer in criminology at Lancaster University where she teaches and researches in the areas of money laundering and organised, white-collar, and financial crimes. Colin King is Reader in Law at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.Clive Walker is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice Studies at the School of Law, University of Leeds, where he has served as the Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies and as Head of School.

• Dirty Money and the New Responses of the 21st Century;Katie Benson, Colin King and Clive Walker;PART I: INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES AND NEW PERSPECTIVES ON EXISTING TECHNIQUES; Too Much Information? Evaluating the Financial Intelligence Gathering Provisions of the Fourth European Union Anti-Money Laundering Directive and the Common Reporting Standard in Combatting Tax Evasion;Sam Bourton; Cooperation Between Financial Intelligence Units in the EU: Challenges for the Rights to Privacy and Data Protection;Foivi Sofia Mouzakiti; Risk-Based Approach: Is it the Answer to Effective Anti-Money Laundering Compliance?;Gauri Sinha; Unexplained Wealth Orders: an Evolving Approach to Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Anti-Money Laundering Regime in the United Kingdom;Sirajo Yakubu; Social Value or Social Harm? The Impact of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 upon the Defendant and their Families;Craig Fletcher;PART II: INNOVATIVE ASSEMBLAGES OF GOVERNMENT; Legal Professionals as Dirty Money Gatekeepers: the Institutional Problem;Nathaneal Tilahun; Occupation, Organisation and Opportunity: Theorising the Facilitation of Money Laundering as ‘White-Collar Crime’;Katie Benson; New Payment Systems: Potential Counter-Terrorist Financing Risks and the Legal Response in the United Kingdom;Doron Goldbarsht; The Use of Crytpocurrencies in the UK Real Estate Market: an Assessment of Money Laundering Risks;Ilaria Zavoli; Criminal Money and Antiquities: an Open Source Investigation into Transnational Organized Cultural Property Crime;Samuel Andrew Hardy;PART III: COUNTRY-SPECIFIC INSIGHTS OR REBELLION; UK Corporate Corruption: a Regulatory Paradox;Nicholas Mills; Corporate Criminal Liability and the Failure to Prevent Offence: an Argument for the Adoption of an Omissions Based Offence in AML;Steven Montagu-Cairns; The Development of Laws in Kuwait to Combat Corruption: a Work in Progress;Noura T. A. Al-Oumi; Proceeds of Corruption Crime: The Kuwaiti Legal Response;Khaled S.Al-Rashidi; The Suspension of Nigeria from the Egmont Group and its Re-admittance: a Case of Reactive Compliance to Appease the Task Masters?;Olufemi Olaoye; The Qatar Crisis, Legitimacy and the use of Sanctions Against Terrorist Financing;Ahmed Almutawa; Iran Responds: International Counter-Terrorist Financing Framework;Zeynab Malakoutikhah;

"The book represents the latest wave of proceeds of crime scholarship. It contains consideration of a fascinating range of approaches, jurisdictions and subject markets, by an eclectically drawn and dynamic range of scholars. It is a reminder of how little we know, and that a healthy scepticism must always be entertained. It is recommended reading for all interested in the field."- Peter Alldridge, Drapers’ Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London. "Governments love to trumpet new 'innovative' strategies to target money laundering, terrorism, corruption and criminal property. But do they work and do their benefits outweigh their costs, including human costs? Confronting questions like these from unique and critical perspectives, this timely collection of essays by emerging and learned scholars is a welcome addition to the literature."- Simon N. M. Young, Professor and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong; Barrister, Parkside Chambers`The book provides critical inquiries mainly from distinctive criminal and international law perspectives yet at the same time offers insights which would complement other social science approaches on the current state of the policies and laws (law in books) and human or institutional factors, impacting law in action… It is a unique contribution to the AML/CTF literature, providing excellent and detailed inquiries into distinctive legal, political and policy considerations by fresh analyses and insights. It is a must-read for scholars and students of law and other social sciences. It is also an excellent reference point for professionals, commentators, policy-makers and law enforcement agencies.’Umut Turksen, Amicus Curiae, Series 2, Vol 1, No 3, 547-53