Introduction to Special Issue on "Understanding Money Laundering: Empirical and Theoretical Insights into Offenders, Typologies, and Determinants of Criminal Behaviour".

This document is an introduction to a special issue of the European Journal on Criminal Policy & Research focused on understanding money laundering. The introduction highlights the lack of knowledge about how money laundering works in practice and the limited research on the behavior and choices of money laundering offenders. The special issue includes papers that examine the behavior of money laundering offenders from various perspectives, such as theoretical frameworks, empirical studies, and case analyses. The papers cover a range of topics, including the determinants of offender choices, the methods used by different offender groups, and the role of intermediaries in money laundering. The introduction emphasizes the need for more research in this field and the importance of adopting an offender's perspective to better understand money laundering practices. [Extracted from the article]