Book Review: Terrorist Financing, Money Laundering, and Tax Evasion: Examining the Performance of Financial Intelligence Units

• Date: 01 March 2013
• DOI: 10.1177/1057567713476885
• Published date: 01 March 2013
• Author: Friedrich Schneider
• Subject Matter: Book Reviews

to the Small Screen is the subject of Chapter 19 as Angus Nurse assesses the differences between the

program Dexter and its literary source material. The Canadian legal system returns as the focus of

Chapter 20 as the author, Jennifer Schulz, analyzes the program The Associates and whether the

show features any aspects unique to the Canadian legal system. In Chapter 21 (Annette Houlihan),

the final chapter of the book, the shows Criminal Minds, Dexter, and Law & Order: SVU are fea-

tured in order to survey the portrayal of sadistic serial killers on television.

Law and Justice on the Small Screen excels in several ways. A major strength of the book is the

diversity of voices represented in the book. Due to the variety of authors contributing, a number of

topics within the field of law and television are covered. Along with the book’s topical variety, is a

strong multinational representation with several chapters focusing on law and television in other

countries such as Canada (Chapters 3, 10, 15, and 20), Germany (Chapter 12), and Spain

(Chapter 16). Additionally, a variety of methodological approaches are used throughout the book,

although the majority is qualitative in nature. The writing, itself, is clear and concise throughout the

book, making Law and Justice on the Small Screen an easy read for those in the criminal justice field

as well as media and mass communications. Even without having prior knowledge of any of the tele-

vision programs discussed within the book, the reader should have no problems understanding the

themes the programs are used to discuss.

D’Souza, J.

Terrorist Financing, Money Laundering, and Tax Evasion: Examining the Performance of Financial Intelligence Units.

London, New York: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. 21 p., $58.45 (paperback).

ISBN 978-1-4398-2850-2

Reviewed by: Friedrich Schneider, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Linz, Austria

DOI: 10.1177/1057567713476885

In the book, Terrorist Financing, Money Laundering, and Tax Evasion, the author undertakes an

attempt to provide an analysis of the financing phenomenon from raising the funds to government

agencies’ efforts to interdict them, and to measure and monitor the outcomes of these efforts. In the

first chapter, the author deals with the organization of terrorism and the reorganization of intelli-

gence. The author starts with the roots of religion-based terrorism in the Middle East, in the United

States, in the Indian subcontinent, Northern Island and South America. And then reviews the recent

developments in counter terrorism, deals with legislation and surveillance, law enforcement, and

further steps in intelligence reforms. Evaluating Chapter 1, though the basic format is well struc-

tured, I am somewhat puzzled that in only six pages, the roots of religion-based terrorism are

explained in such a ‘‘loose’’ fashion with no detailed analysis being undertaken. At least for one

area, ‘‘the Middle East,’’ such an analysis would be very helpful. I was also considered why recent

developments in counter terrorism were presented and why it was even included in the opening

chapter as opposed to later chapters. I would have preferred a deeper analysis of the roots of

religion-based terrorism, the key findings, what the goals of such actions are, and what are the pos-

sibilities of stopping them.

In the second chapter, the author deals with the problem ‘‘The source of funds,’’ and in Chapter 3,

he deals with the similar problem of ‘‘the transfer of funds.’’ These two chapters are very interesting

and well written. The facts and figures are nicely presented. Still, I would like to have liked to have

seen a much sharper differentiation between financial crimes with the goal to finance terrorism and

other financial crimes with the goal to maximize the profits of the transnational organized crime

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