Civil Forfeiture of Criminal Property: Legal Measures for Targeting the Proceeds of Crime - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1847208266 ISBN 13: 9781847208262

Verlag: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009

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In this book, which is the first of its kind, leading experts examine the civil and criminal forfeiture systems in Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. In the fight against organized crime and international money laundering, there is a global trend for countries to enact forfeiture and confiscation laws that are applied through the civil process rather than the traditional criminal justice system. The authors gathered here analyze the appeal these civil forfeiture laws have for governments for their potential to disrupt criminal organizations and for their quantifiable benefits to the state. But without the usual safeguards of the criminal process, civil forfeiture laws are controversial, attracting constitutional challenges, particularly on human rights grounds.

This book will be of great interest to policy-makers in government, and law enforcement agencies who are thinking of reforming their own laws, as well as to law reform agencies or select parliamentary committees where the issue of reform is topical. It will also appeal to students in criminal law, criminology and human rights.

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Edited by Simon N.M. Young, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1847208266
• ISBN 13: 9781847208262
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 361
• Herausgeber: Young Simon N. M.
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