The Economics of Crime and Money Laundering: Does Anti-Money Laundering Policy Reduce Crime?

Money for Crime and Money from Crime: Financing crime and laundering crime proceeds

This article summarises briefly what is known internationally about how ‘organised crimes’ are financed and how this differs from the financing of licit businesses. It shows how illicit financing might and does operate, noting that a key issue is the social capital of offenders and their access to illicit finance which ironically, may be easier if controls make it harder to launder money. It th...

Crime, Illicit Markets, and Money Laundering

Money Laundering and Technology Enabled Crime: a cultural analysis

Over the past decade or so, aided by information and communication technologies, money laundering has seen a sharp increase. While traditionally money laundering was associated with drug cartels and warlords, increasingly the focus has shifted towards white-collar crime and terrorist financing. It is therefore important to understand why money laundering (and hence white-collar crime) comes int...

Research on Money Laundering Crime under Electronic Payment Background

As the result of information technology's development, promoted the tradition payment means enormously to the computerization development advancement. The electronic payment has accelerated the money circulation speed, and has brought the enormous convenience for the modern trade activity. But the electronic payment's characteristics such as invisible, high speed, concealment and so on have pro...

E-money Laundering Prevention

Although the word of “Money Laundering” isn’t very old in world literature, but attempted money laundering has a long history a long side with trade and commerce, as it always has been told. Money laundering is a process that the incomes of criminal acts enter to the economic cycle and will purify Dirty income. Therefore, we can say launderers are actually committed two offenses, primarily crim...