Clarendon Studies in Criminology aims to provide a forum for outstanding empirical and theoretical work in all aspects of criminology and criminal justice, broadly understood. The Editors welcome submissions from established scholars, as well as excellent PhD work. The Series was inaugurated in 1994, with Roger Hood as its first General Editor, following discussions between Oxford University Press and three criminology centres. It is edited under the auspices of these three centres: the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics, and the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford. Each supplies members of the Editorial Board and, in turn, the Series Editor or Editors. Vincenzo Ruggiero’s new volume, Dirty Money, is, as the title implies, a study of how money is transformed via human action into an instrument for the production of harm. Whilst money might superficially be thought of as a ‘neutral tool’, Ruggiero’s book details how, consistently across time, money has perverted its neutrality. More specifically, the book focuses on episodes of what Ruggiero refers to as ‘financial delinquency’. It further examines the ways in which a very broad array of observers—philosophers, theologians and criminologists—have shaped our understanding of these episodes and their causes and consequences.