The new policing of assets and the new assets of policing: A tentative financial cost-benefit analysis of the UK's anti-money laundering and asset recovery regime

Journal of Money Laundering Control

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-299

  Sproat, Peter A ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Law enforcement; Money laundering; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650395500     PISSN: 13685201     EISSN: 17587808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13685200710763461     Document Type: Article

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