RT Article
T1 Making sense of professional enablers’ involvement in laundering organized crime proceeds and of their regulation
JF Trends in organized crime
VO 24
IS 1
SP 96
OP 110
A1 Levi, Michael 1948-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/175071566X
AB 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.
K1 Effectiveness
K1 Legal professionals
K1 Lawyers
K1 Enablers
K1 Organized Crime
K1 Money Laundering
DO 10.1007/s12117-020-09401-y