Money Laundry: Regulating Criminal Finance in the Global Economy

by J.C. Sharman

A generation ago not a single country had laws to counter money laundering; now, more countries have standardized anti-money laundering (AML) policies than have armed forces. In The Money Laundry, J. C. Sharman investigates whether AML policy works, and why it has spread so rapidly to so many states with so little in common. Sharman asserts that there are few benefits to such policies but high costs, which fall especially heavily on poor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00A2PIS9I
• ISBN13: 9780801450181
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher