NCJ Number
190762
Date Published
March 2000
Length
22 pages
Annotation
This paper sought to integrate criminological, legal, and public policy perspectives on transnational crime, stressing how crime had extended beyond borders. It reviewed various forms of transnational illicit trafficking and addressed the problems of search, seizure and confiscation. It called for additional strengthening and consolidating of criminal policy and legal action.
Abstract
This paper presented in 1998 at the UNAFEI, 110th International Training Course on "Effective Countermeasures Against Economic Crime and Computer Crime" showed cases of transnational crime that were increasingly legally and technically complex and in various dimensions. These crimes were seen on the ground and in cyberspace. The paper reviewed transnational economic and computer crime through discussions on the dimensions of transnational crime, dimensions of the Internet, transnational economic and computer crime, crime as the growing international security threat, and the United Nations against crime in the 21st century-New dimensions of international cooperation. The potential growth in transnational crime is also seen as a growth in illicit profits. In the wake of the growing international security threat that crime poses, there is the need to find commensurate, consolidated, and effective countermeasures. If crime is indeed a new common international enemy, there will be a transnational commitment involved in combating it. This commitment will allow the international criminal justice community to quickly finalize a draft United Nations convention against transnational organized crime.