International Cooperation and Practical Technical Assistance for Strengthening the Rule of Law: Promoting the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program; Action Against National and Transnational Economic and Organized Crime, and the Role of Criminal Law in the Protection of the En

• NCJ Number: 157491
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 18 pages
• Corporate Author: United Nations Secretariat
• Sale Source: United Nations
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 29 April- 8 May 1995

Annotation

This report, a supplement to the Fourth United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of the Criminal Justice Systems, analyzes the responses to a survey completed by States, intergovernmental organizations, and nongovernmental organizations regarding the extent and impact of transnational criminal activities on the environment.

Abstract

The survey results indicated that more States are attempting to examine and define the characteristics, international features, profit-making aim, and other attributes of transnational crime. Areas of particular concern to responding States included increases in computer crime, crimes resulting from the exploitation of technology, environmental crime, smuggling of illegal aliens, piracy, and hijacking. The results are discussed in terms of the establishment of an early law enforcement warning system, improvement of statistics on crime, training of statisticians, the accurate measurement of the costs of transnational crime, and the need to establish an ad hoc group to determine how the second supplement on transnational crime should be conducted. 2 tables and 15 notes