The risk-based approach to AML: representation, paradox, and the 3rd directive

This paper seeks to deconstruct the proposed risk-based approach to anti-money laundering (AML) and to relate it to the text of the European Union's 3rd Directive. The paper also aims to discuss a variety of risk-related aspects and how they have come to be constructed on the sociological perspective of risk and subsequently to examine the relation of risk elements to AML.