Transnational Criminal Organizations, Cybercrime and Money Laundering: A Handbook for Enforcement Officers, Auditors and Financial Investigations.

• Author: Ferrall, Bard R.
• Position: Review

JAMES R. RICHARDS, TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS, CYBERCRIME AND MONEY LAUNDERING: A HANDBOOK FOR ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, AUDITORS AND FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1999) 318pp.

In the past decade, organized criminal organizations, have grown past regional limits, developed strategic alliances with similar organizations in other regions, and assumed a global scope. Also increasing transnational is the "money laundering" of the proceeds of organized crime. Local and national law enforcement agencies all over the world are challenged by the rise globally organized crime. Among the most important recent responses is the criminalization of "money laundering," (by which term may be understood the various techniques for giving a legitimate appearance to the funds of criminal activity and to conceal the source of those funds,) and the targeting of the profits of criminal activity. While many books have been written by and for law enforcement officials, regulators of financial institutions, and computer systems administrators to cope with globally organized crime, the scope of these books has been limited to particular specialties. The author of this book has attempted to present a general reference work. First presented are histories of the major criminal and terrorist organizations, which are...