At one time, brown envelopes were the method by which illicit money moved through football.

With the game now global, has it's scale opened it up to significant risk of falling prey to far more malign forces.

In this week's episode we look at recent report titled "Staying Onside – English Football, Illicit Finance, and the Incoming AML Regime" by Dr Peter Duncan and Professor Nicholas Lord.

https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/1667911388/DuncanLord_2025_Football_ownership_report.pdf

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In todays episode we look a new piece of research which explores how young people convicted of murder process their actions, frame their own blameworthiness and interpret the context of their crimes.

What impact do these three insights have a young person convicted of murder and how do they impact any hope of rehabilitation?

It's a paper called The Moral Weight of Murder by Dr Susie Hulley and is published in the British Journal of Criminology.

https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaf089

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The National Crime Agency estimate that £100 billion of criminal cash passes through the UK financial markets every year.

There may be a vast network of global obligations in place to prevent money laundering, but is the system fit for purpose?

The research discussed today is "How Well Does the Money Laundering Control System Work?".

It was authored by Mirko Nazzari and Peter Reuter, and you can find it published in the journal Crime and Justice.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/735665?journalCode=cj

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