Practitioner & Academic References
These references support practitioner framing and research depth. Official law, regulator guidance, institutional policy and responsible reviewer judgment remain primary.
Source boundary: books and academic references are secondary materials. Official FATF, regulator, FIU, sanctions authority, registry, court and institutional guidance sources remain primary.
How to Use This List#
- Use books for professional framing, historical context and analytical maturity.
- Use official guidance for control design, source priority, filing concepts, sanctions obligations and public-source interpretation.
- Do not reproduce long proprietary passages or paid training materials.
- Do not turn typologies into operational evasion instructions.
References#
| Author | Reference | Use in AML Bible |
|---|---|---|
| Dennis Cox | Handbook of Anti-Money Laundering | Implementation framing, governance, controls and operational AML perspective. |
| Tim Parkman | Mastering Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing | Compliance programme and practitioner control framing. |
| Stephen Platt | Criminal Capital | Risk-control critique and financial-industry accountability framing. |
| Nigel Morris-Cotterill | How Not to Be a Money Launderer | Historical practitioner perspective, early risk-based thinking and compliance-system audit mindset. |
| Nigel Morris-Cotterill | Understanding Suspicion in Financial Crime | Suspicion as a reasoned analytical conclusion rather than a keyword match. |
| John A. Cassara | Money Laundering and Illicit Financial Flows | Value movement, enforcement perspective and effectiveness framing. |
| John A. Cassara | Trade-Based Money Laundering | TBML value-trail lens and defensive trade-risk framing. |
| John A. Cassara & Avi Jorisch | On the Trail of Terror Finance | CTF mindset and destination/use-of-value perspective. |
| John Madinger | Money Laundering: A Guide for Criminal Investigators | Evidence chain, proceeds tracing and investigator mindset. |
| Peter Lilley | Dirty Dealing | Historical view of laundering through legitimate business and global financial systems. |
| William C. Gilmore | Dirty Money | International legal evolution of AML/CFT measures. |
| Peter Reuter & Edwin Truman | Chasing Dirty Money | AML effectiveness, system outcomes and policy critique. |
| Brigitte Unger & Elena Busuioc | The Scale and Impacts of Money Laundering | Economic impact, measurement limits and scale framing. |
| Wouter H. Muller, Christian H. Kälin & John G. Goldsworth | Anti-Money Laundering: International Law and Practice | Cross-border law and practice reference. |
| World Bank | Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism: A Comprehensive Training Guide | Institutional training baseline and AML/CFT learning structure. |
| Killian J. McCarthy, ed. | The Money Laundering Market | Criminal-economy and regulatory market lens. |
| Nicholas Ryder | The Financial War on Terrorism | CTF strategy and counter-terrorist-financing policy limits. |
| Brigitte Unger & Daan van der Linde, eds. | Research Handbook on Money Laundering | Academic coverage of history, scale, RBA, TBML, real estate and governance. |