Civil Recovery of Criminal Property /
Civil Recovery of Criminal Property analyses the confiscation of the proceeds of crime in the absence of criminal conviction in Ireland and England & Wales in depth. By interviewing practitioners engaged with civil recovery proceedings, this book remedies the previous lack of empirical engagemen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- Setting the Scene
- Arguments
- Method
- Terminology
- Distinguishing Post-Conviction and Non-Conviction-Based Approaches
- Criminal (post-conviction) confiscation
- Non-conviction-based confiscation
- Civil recovery
- Chapter Outline
- 2. Civil Recovery as a Hybrid Civil/Criminal Procedure
- Introduction
- What is Procedural Hybridity?
- Procedural rights and protections
- Security
- Prevention
- The Civil/Criminal Distinction
- Drawing the lines
- Blurring the lines: The 'middleground'
- Honest and pragmatic?
- 3. Justifications and Legal Framework
- Introduction
- 'Follow the Money'
- Enacting Civil Recovery
- Justifying Civil Recovery
- Law: Ireland
- Law: England & Wales
- 4. Judicial Responses
- Introduction
- Judicial Reaction-Ireland
- Judicial Reaction-England & Wales
- Punishment
- Preventive
- Reparative
- Compensatory
- Civil Classification
- 5. Critiquing Civil Recovery
- Introduction
- The Non-Conviction-Based Approach
- Presumption of Innocence
- Standard of Proof
- 6. Civil Recovery and Property
- Introduction
- The Legal Fiction of Actions in rem
- A 'Specific Property' Regime
- No good title
- Title and third-party rights
- Restitution
- 'Life, Liberty, and Estate'
- 7. A Pragmatic Response?
- Introduction
- An Academia/Law Enforcement Divide?
- A Means to an End?
- Fair response or necessary evil?
- A proportionate response?
- The standard and the burden of proof
- Disclosure Requirements ('The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear')
- Explaining unexplained wealth
- Defending civil recovery proceedings
- The role of the courts
- Principle, Policy, Procedure-and Pragmatism
- Bare harm and moral harm
- 8. Conclusion
- Concluding Remarks
- Self-Legitimation
- Comparing Civil Recovery
- Hybrid Proceduralism
- Index