Organised Crime, Financial Crime, and Criminal Justice

Dan Jasinski is a barrister (unregistered) and Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at the University of Northampton. Dan’s current research focuses on the criminal process, and he has previously taught skills modules on the Bar Training Course, in addition to organised crime on the LLB.Amber Phillips is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of the West of England. Having initially trained as a translator, her career as a criminologist began in 2012 while she was living and working in Calabria, Italy, as part of the EU-funded Leonardo da Vinci scheme. Her experiences with antimafia organisations in Calabria inspired her AHRC-funded PhD, which she successfully defended in 2018. As a researcher, Dr Phillips is primarily interested in transnational organised crime and mafia-type groups, as well as the impact of cultural representations and media narratives on crime control policy.Ed Johnston is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Procedure at the University of Northampton. His research and teaching centres on the field of field of criminal justice and, in particular, on the law of disclosure, fair trial rights, and adversarial justice.

• Introduction 1 Italy’s other ‘other mafia’: Remediation and representations of the ’ndrangheta 2 Italy’s ‘circle of legality’: The confiscation and social use of assets in the fight against the mafia 3 Unexplained wealth orders and the right not to self-incriminate 4 The introduction of anti-money laundering legislation in the Vatican City State5 How and to what extent has public-private financial information sharing improved the UK’s counterterrorist financing reporting regime? 6 The future of criminal finance: ‘bin Ladens’ and the cashless society 7 Crypto-assets and criminality: A critical review focusing on money laundering and terrorism financing 8 Setting the conditions of competition: Repositioning the neoliberal state in the fraud debate 9 Representations of white collar crime in the Caribbean 10 Deferred prosecution agreements: A soft touch? 11 The United Kingdom, organised crime, and money laundering: A critical reflection