“…Indeed, a number of Home Office strategy documents have highlighted the importance of this role (Home Office, 2007, 2009, 2011. Evaluations of aspects of the 2002 Act have focused on the extent to which law enforcement agencies have been successful in recovering assets (Kennedy, 2007;Sproat, 2007Sproat, , 2012Sproat, , 2012. These have largely been critical of the amounts recovered by law enforcement agencies, which have partly resulted from significant levels of attrition in the system between the amounts identified for recovery and the amounts actually recovered (Bullock et al, 2009;Bullock, 2010).…”