The Critical Handbook of Money Laundering

Table of contents<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>1. Money-laundering: a global issue and scarce knowledge</div><div>1.1. Introduction: why this book?</div><div>1.2.&nbsp; &nbsp; Where did the anti-money laundering narrative start?</div><div>1.3.&nbsp; &nbsp; A sense of urgency and accumulation of knowledge</div><div>1.4 . Conclusion</div><div><br></div><div>2. Methodology&nbsp;</div><div>2.1. Introduction</div><div>2.2. The meaning and limitations of probing FATF reports</div><div>2.3.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Official sources and their validity</div><div>2.3.1.&nbsp; The Mutual Evaluation Reports</div><div>2.3.2.&nbsp; The annual reports and strategic documents</div><div>2.4. The academic literature and the march of the economists</div><div>2.5.&nbsp; &nbsp; The nature of enquiry: Review and protocol development</div><div>2.6.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The initial systematic scoping of relevant literature</div><div>2.6.1.&nbsp; &nbsp;Searching for existing reviews of money laundering literature</div><div>2.6.2.&nbsp; &nbsp;Scoping search across the money laundering landscape</div><div>2.6.3.&nbsp; &nbsp;Search terms definition for the structured review</div><div>2.7.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Structured review output and theme development</div><div>2.7.1.&nbsp; &nbsp;Emergent themes and the narrative in literature review</div><div>2.7.2.&nbsp; &nbsp;Sorting our database</div><div>2.8.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Conclusion</div><div><br></div><div>3. Historical overview&nbsp;</div><div>3.1.&nbsp; &nbsp; Introduuction</div><div>3.2. The first steps of the crime money approach</div><div>3.3.&nbsp; &nbsp; Next step: the criminalisation of money laundering in the US</div><div>3.4. With the BSA strengthening, the taxman was always near</div><div>3.5.&nbsp; &nbsp; Globalisation by exportation of US legislation</div><div>3.6.&nbsp; &nbsp; The FATF and its extending reach</div><div>3.6.1. The development of the informal anti money laundering club</div><div>3.7.&nbsp; &nbsp; Regulating the extension of the FATF</div>3.8.&nbsp; &nbsp; Organising the FATF: the unfolding shape and structure<div>3.9. The rise of the compliance industry and compliance costs.&nbsp;</div><div>3.10. Cost estimations and the compliance market</div><div>3.11.&nbsp; &nbsp;Conclusion</div><div><br></div><div>4. Concepts, assumptions and consequences</div><div>4.1. Introduction</div><div>4.2. The need for precision</div><div>4.3. Defining laundering: observation or conclusion?</div><div>4.4. Defining in legislative and policy making setting</div><div>4.4.1. Criminal law formulations</div>4.4.2. Defining from the perspective of policy making&nbsp;<div>4.5. ‘All crime’ or a catalogue of offences and national criminal law&nbsp;</div><div>4.6. Assumptions and threats of laundering (in a behavioural approach)</div><div>4.7. Conclusion</div><div><br></div><div>5. Learning more about the FATF: Knowing the tree by its fruits</div><div>5.1. Introduction</div><div>5.2. FATF tasks and its fulfilment</div><div>5.3. Herding the Member States and enforcing compliance</div><div>5.4. The legitimacy of sanctioning</div><div>5.5. Approximating the identity of the FATF</div>5.6. Educational publications: typologies<div>5.7. The FATF in its global network</div><div>5.8 . Conclusion</div><div><br></div><div>6. The legal studies literature&nbsp;</div><div>6.1. Introduction: legal foundations and legal laundering research</div><div>6.2. Interest and harm</div><div>6.3. Proportionality and subsidiarity</div><div>6.4. Scope and lex certis</div><div>6.5. Sanctioning countries</div><div>6.6. Recovery of assets and restorative justice</div><div>6.7. Conclusion</div><div><br></div><div>7.&nbsp; Economists’ consensus: models and estimates</div><div>7.1. Introduction: the concerns of economists</div><div>7.2.&nbsp; &nbsp; Contribution from the conceptual studies</div><div>7.2.1. Definition</div><div>7.3&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Presumed rationality, regulation and the cost benefit debate</div><div>7.4.&nbsp; &nbsp; The vexed topics of efficiency, effectiveness and micro-economics</div><div>7.5.&nbsp; &nbsp; The macro-economic models employed</div><div>7.6.&nbsp; &nbsp; The micro-economic models</div><div>7.7.&nbsp; &nbsp; Critics of the regime</div><div>7.8.&nbsp; &nbsp; Conclusion</div><div><br></div>8. Behaviour and impact ‘on the ground’<div>8.1. Introduction&nbsp;</div><div>8.2. The actions of the states and the persuasiveness of the‘ club’</div><div>8.2. Joining the club and adhering to the rules; enforcement and mutual&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; evaluation</div><div>8.3.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The regulated sector and reasons for compliance</div><div>8.3.1. Costs of compliance</div><div>8.3.2. ‘Persuading’ compliance by other means</div><div>8.3.3. The apparent benefits of the risk based approach</div><div>8.4.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Impact on the criminals: evidence of changing behaviour?</div><div>8.5.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Conclusion</div><br><div>9. “What is all this good for?” A layman’s question&nbsp;</div><div>9.1. Introduction: questions from a tabula rasa</div><div>9.2.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; “What is all this good for?” Duality of aims and knowledge sources</div><div>9.2.1.&nbsp; &nbsp;Integrity and uncertainty</div><div>9.2.2.&nbsp; &nbsp;Crime reduction: the external criterion</div><div>9.2.3. &nbsp; Comparison with the Mutual Evaluation Reports fourth round</div><div>9.2.4. &nbsp; The AML supremacy</div><div>9.3.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The National Risk Assessment Dome</div><div>9.4 . &nbsp; Conclusion</div><div><br></div><div>10. Back to the essence and the future</div><div>10.1. A legal axiom and the ‘least effort principle’</div><div>10.2. Conceptual opaqueness</div><div>10.3. The FATF repressive drone and the independent judiciary</div><div>10.4. Dissuasion and restorative justice</div><div>10.5. Outside of the Dome&nbsp;</div><div>10.6. New horizons</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>