Making sense of professional enablers' involvement in laundering organized crime proceeds and of their regulation

Levi, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2131-2882 2021. Making sense of professional enablers' involvement in laundering organized crime proceeds and of their regulation. Trends in Organized Crime 24 , pp. 96-110. 10.1007/s12117-020-09401-y

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Abstract

Money laundering has ascended the enforcement and criminological agenda in the course of this century, and has been accompanied by an increased focus on legal professionals as ‘enablers’ of crime. This article explores the dynamics of this enforcement, media and political agenda, and how the legal profession has responded in the UK and elsewhere, within the context of ignoring the difficulties of judging the effectiveness of anti money laundering. It concludes that legal responses are a function of their lobbying power, the determination of governments to clamp down on the toxic impacts of legal structures, and different legal cultures. However, it remains unclear what the effects on the levels and organization of serious crimes for gain are of controls on the professions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Additional Information:	This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher:	Springer Verlag (Germany)
ISSN:	1084-4791
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 December 2020
Date of Acceptance:	9 November 2020
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2023 18:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/136886

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