Research On Criminal Policy Of Anti - Terrorism Financing

Terrorism crimes are different from what we called "traditional crimes". It derived from a various factors and backgrounds, including religious, ethnical, regional politics and other factors that are difficult to eliminate. When facing terrorism crimes, traditional methods for combating crimes seem to become infeasible. After the "9.11" attacks in2001, the U.S government waged the retaliatory war against Afghanistan on October,7th,2001to revenge for the "9.11" attacks. However, this retaliatory war did not work as it expected, instead terrorism crimes have global reach in its activities, both quantity and methods since2005.In essence, terrorism crimes are similar to normal organized crimes. To continually and effectively execute their activities, a smoothly functioned capital chain should be guaranteed, therefore, deficiency of an appropriately, well-functioned financial system and support, terrorism activities will be unenforceable. In fact, all terrorism need funding, in some circumstances, terrorism groups will even financing through legal international financial institutions or other rapidly developing financial systems and mechanism to support their terrorism activities. This article will discuss the theoretical and practical bases of the adjustment of criminal policy by analyzing" terrorism financing". This article will be divided into four chapters:Chapter One:Overview of terrorism. According to the logic of analyzing normal strategy of combating crimes, before discussing the issues of adjusting criminal policy of international terrorism crimes, this article will summarize and classify the academically popular renditions and further analyze the special causes of international terrorism crimes, and then based on which, derived the direction, methods and necessities of adjustment of criminal policy for combating international terrorism crimes.Chapter Two:The influence of financing on the development of terrorism. This chapter mainly analyzes the manifestations, financing platforms and the impact of terrorism financing, discuss the basis to combat terrorism crimes through the accommodation of funds.Chapter Three:The significance of combating crimes through anti-money laundering. This chapter mainly discusses the definition of money-laundering and the achievements accomplished in the process of using anti-money laundering as the measure of combating drug-related crimes and some terrorism activities, in order to provide the theoretical and practical basis for demonstration the rationality of referring money-laundering as an important methods to combat modern terrorism crimes.Chapter Four:The methods of adjustment of criminal policy for anti-terrorism financing. This chapter first overview the methods already adopted globally in combating terrorism crimes, and then classify the modern crimes into three stages, based on which, this article bring in the three different measures against three different kinds of crimes. In the end, this article comes to the conclusion of the appropriate criminal policies and specific measures in combating terrorism financing.