laundering, gatekeepers, and facilitators of money laundering, this timely book provides important new insights into money laundering, and anti-money laundering, in the legal profession. This book not only examines the AML regime and how lawyers launder proceeds of crime, it goes further by examining punishments following conviction. The book challenges entrenched views of (anti-)money laundering, and delivers important new insights based on original empirical research. I highly recommend it!
Colin King, Reader in Law, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
This is a commendably thorough and thoughtful analysis of identified money laundering by the legal profession in England and Wales (and to a lesser extent, around the world), and of barriers to criminal, regulatory and practical interventions against it.Michael Levi, Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University
If you're an individual or organisation generating significant finances from criminal activities and want to use this to purchase assets, you need to be able to conceal the criminal origins of the money, and legal professionals can help you do this. In this book, Benson empirically analyses and contextualises the opportunities for, and nature of, such criminal facilitation, and in doing so provides rich insights into the drivers and conditions that lead to these otherwise legitimate 'white-collar' actors laundering criminal proceeds on behalf of others.Nicholas Lord, Professor of Criminology, University of Manchester
