TY - BOOK ID - 11356526 TI - What Went Wrong With Money Laundering Law? PY - 2016 SN - 1137525355 1137525363 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, DB - UniCat KW - Social sciences. KW - Criminal law. KW - Public finance. KW - Crime KW - Organized crime. KW - Social Sciences. KW - Crime and Society. KW - Organized Crime. KW - Criminal Law. KW - Financial Law/Fiscal Law. KW - Sociological aspects. KW - Money laundering KW - Money KW - Law and legislation. KW - Law KW - Commercial law KW - Criminal law KW - Crime—Sociological aspects. KW - Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law. KW - Crime syndicates KW - Organised crime KW - Crimes and misdemeanors KW - Criminals KW - Law, Criminal KW - Penal codes KW - Penal law KW - Pleas of the crown KW - Public law KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Criminal procedure KW - Cameralistics KW - Public finance KW - Currency question KW - Law and legislation KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Public finances KW - Criminal sociology KW - Criminology KW - Sociology of crime KW - Sociology KW - Sociological aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11356526 AB - 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. ER -