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

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.

General

Imprint:	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2009
Editors:	Simon N.M. Young
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-1-84720-826-2
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Criminal law
LSN:	1-84720-826-6
Barcode:	9781847208262

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