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During the last few decades, corrupt financial practices were
increasingly being monitored in many countries around the globe.
The past few decades have been eventful for these issues. Today,
tackling money laundering and terrorism financing are considered
key issues in developed and developing countries alike. Eradication
of money laundering and terrorism financing through a holistic
approach of awareness, prevention, and enforcement is a current
need. It has enabled the birth of new regulatory regimes based on
strict compliance, robust processes, and technology. One of the
many problems with this is the lack of general awareness about all
these issues among various stakeholders including researchers and
practitioners. Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing in Global
Financial Systems deepens the discourse about money laundering,
terrorism financing, and risk management in a modern-day
environment. It provides a fascinating and invaluable guide for
understanding the theory, practice, and cases of these topics.
Split into two sections, the first being money laundering and
terrorism financing and the second being financial governance and
risk management, the chapters create comprehensive knowledge on
these acts of crime in the financial industry by defining the
crimes themselves, the many challenges and impacts, and potential
solutions. This book is ideal for government officials, financial
professionals, policymakers, academicians, business professionals,
managers, IT specialists, researchers, and students.
Perhaps no other television show captures our innate fascination
with crime and criminals better than the original Forensic Files.
Examining true crime cases from murders to insurance fraud,
hit-and-runs to kidnappings, every case featured on the show is
solved in large part with the help of forensic science like DNA
evidence. While the original Forensic Files stopped production in
2011 with over 400 original episodes, re-runs now air in 142
countries, not to mention on streaming services, making the show
perfect for binge watchers, daunting for new-comers, and as much a
mainstay as any program in the history of television. But, most of
all, the cases always leave viewers wanting to know more. In
Forensic Files Now, author Rebecca Reisner shares her own gripping
retellings of 40 favorite cases profiled on the show along with
fascinating updates adapted from her popular blog,
ForensicFilesNow.com. From classic cases like the Harvard-educated
architect who opted for arsenic instead of divorce, to the Texas
lovebirds who robbed a grave in an insurance fraud plot that made
international headlines, the Ohio doctor who attempted a fresh
start by burying his wife in the basement of their house, and some
cases that are so captivating that they have sparked spinoff
mini-series of their own, readers will be enthralled by these vivid
recaps and detailed updates. Also featuring an in-depth interview
with Forensic Files creator Paul Dowling and a profile on the
show's beloved narrator, Peter Thomas, Forensic Files Now is a
must-read for diehard Forensic Files fans and a welcome find for
true crime readers who are always looking for more riveting and
well-told stories.
"Stephen Senise's... newly published study of the case, offers the
most important clue not just as to whodunit, but why." TIMES OF
ISRAEL "fascinating" - Gareth Williams, editor RIPPEROLOGIST, The
Journal Of Jack The Ripper, East End & Victorian Studies
"remarkable" - APN NEWS & MEDIA, Australia "painstaking
research" - JEWISH CHRONICLE, London Did Jack The Ripper flee
London for the colony of New South Wales at the height of the
world's most notorious serial-murder rampage? Was the deadly attack
on Alice McKenzie in 1889 his last bid in pursuit of what was, not
just a brazen killing spree, but a macabre, politically motivated
publicity stunt? Is it conceivable that a maniac took it upon
himself to try and shut down the flow of Jewish refugees spilling
into London's East End, just as the area was being thrust into the
political spotlight? Journalist Stephen Senise, explores these
questions and the neighbourhoods of old Whitechapel to discover
that by February 1888 community tensions were so high that two
parliamentary select committees of investigation were dispatched to
advise the House of Commons and the House of Lords on the social
and industrial tensions tearing a community apart. Enter an
opportunist hell-bent on broadcasting a hateful message... a
madman, ready to unleash an 'Autumn of Terror'.
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