Full Description
Adopting a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach, this book focuses on the emerging and innovative aspects of attempts to target the accumulated assets of those engaged in criminal and terrorist activity, organized crime and corruption. It examines the 'follow-the-money' approach and explores the nature of criminal, civil and regulatory responses used to attack the financial assets of those engaged in financial crime in order to deter and disrupt future criminal activity as well as terrorism networks. With contributions from leading international academics and practitioners in the fields of law, economics, financial management, criminology, sociology and political science, the book explores law and practice in countries with significant problems and experiences, revealing new insights into these dilemmas. It also discusses the impact of the 'follow-the-money' approach on human rights while also assessing effectiveness. The book will appeal to academics and researchers of financial crime, organized crime and terrorism as well as practitioners in the police, prosecution, financial and taxation agencies, policy-makers and lawyers.
Contents
List of Figures, List of Tables, Notes on Contributors, Part I: Introductory Matters, 1. Emerging Issues in the Regulation of Criminal and Terrorist Assets, Part II: Criminal and Civil Responses to Illicit Assets, 2. Confiscation of the Proceeds of Crime: The European Union Framework, 3. Post-Conviction Confiscation of Assets in England and Wales: Rhetoric and Reality, 4. Anti-Mafia Forfeiture in the Italian System, 5. Civil Forfeiture of Criminal Assets in Bulgaria, 6. Criminal Asset Recovery in Australia, 7. 'Hitting Back' at Organized Crime: The Adoption of Civil Forfeiture in Ireland, 8. Civil Processes and Tainted Assets: Exploring Canadian Models of Forfeiture, 9. Asset Recovery: Substantive or Symbolic?, 10. Corruption, the United Nations Convention against Corruption ('UNCAC') and Asset Recovery, Part III: Responses to the Financing of Terrorist Activity, 11. Terrorism Financing and the Policing of Charities: Who Pays the Price?, 12. US Efforts to Stem the Flow of Funds to Terrorist Organizations: Export Controls, Financial Sanctions and Material Support, 13. Dismantling Terrorist Economics: The Spanish Experience, 14. EU Counter-Terrorist Sanctions: The Questionable Success Story of Criminal Law in Disguise, Select Bibliography, Index
