Value Analysis Of Anti - Money Laundering Criminal Policy

Money Laundering, as the essential and necessary stage of economic crimes which can obtain huge illegal interest, is the lifeblood of organized criminal groups to keep in power. Since traditional anti-drug strategies do not work very well, international society proposed to use anti-money laundering to prevent and control drug crimes based on the relationship between Money Laundering and crimes mentioned above. Then a series of measurements for controlling the income of drug crimes has became important part of anti-money laundering system. With the development of the global crime complexion, anti-money laundering has been widely used as a strategy in preventing and controlling all sorts of serious crimes. Therefore, at the very beginning when a global anti-money laundering system was designed, it was deeply rooted in a purpose of criminal policy. Then as the appearance of some new situation in money laundering and new features in all sorts of serious crimes, anti-money laundering system is expected to play an important role as a criminal policy.Anti-money laundering system is neither labeled artificially in the name of criminal policy, nor forced to achieve the aim of it. The significance and value of anti-money laundering in criminal policy are determined by the inherent mechanism of itself. As well, it is also theoretically supported by some criminal theories. As a word, anti-money laundering not only has very clearly criminal policy aims, but also very detailed and important significance from the prospective of criminal policy.The criminal policies of China always prefer to use severe penalty to prevent and control crimes which not only fail to reduce the amount of crimes but even lead to more and more crimes. In this situation, maybe we can change our mind to use more effective ways to control crimes and this article suggest to try the anti-money laundering for preventing and controlling the upper crime of money laundering.From perspective of criminal policy, this article introduce the origin and history of anti-money laundering from which we can find anti-money laundering was born as criminal policy. Inherent mechanism and relevant criminal theories also provide anti-money laundering with detailed and important significance of criminal policy. Considering China’s condition, we should complete and improve our anti-money laundering system and make full use of its criminal policy value.