Last week saw the publication of Katie’s research monograph, Lawyers and the Proceeds of Crime: the Facilitation of Money Laundering and Its Control. The book considers the nature of legal professionals’ involvement in the facilitation of money laundering, and its control through criminal justice and regulatory mechanisms, combining empirical data and theoretical debates to provide new insights into a notably under-researched and under-theorised area.

‘The role of legal professionals in the laundering of criminal proceeds is widely acknowledged, while little empirical research has been done on this crucial node in money laundering schemes… This book fills that gap by offering the most complete and up-to-date account of the facilitation of money laundering.’

(Prof. Wim Huisman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

‘This is a commendably thorough and thoughtful analysis of identified money laundering by the legal profession … and of barriers to criminal, regulatory and practical interventions against it.’

(Prof. Michael Levi, Cardiff University)

This follows the publication in February of an edited collection entitled: Assets, Crimes and the State: Innovation in 21^st Century Legal Responses. Edited with Dr Colin King and Professor Clive Walker, this collection brings together 17 researchers in the fields of anti-money laundering, proceeds of crime, counter-terrorist financing and corruption to offer critical analyses of contemporary anti-assets strategies and state responses to a range of financial crimes.

‘This 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.’

(Prof. Peter Alldridge, QMUL)

‘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.’

(Prof. Simon N. M. Young, University of Hong Kong)