Transnational Crimes And National Security: An Overview

Journal Title: LAJOHIS (LASU Journal of History & International Studies) - Year 2002, Vol 1, Issue 1

Abstract

Organized crime has traditionally been seen as a domestic problem bedevilling a relatively small number of states such as Italy, United States, and Japan. In the last few years, however, there, has been a recognition that the problem is no longer limited to a few states and can no longer be treated as something that fall within a single jurisdiction. The rise of a global market for illicit drugs, the end of the Cold War and the barriers between East and West, the collapse of the criminal Justice system in Russia and the other states of the former Soviet Union, the development of free trade areas in Western Europe and North America, and the emergence of global financial and trading systems have fundamentally changed the context in which criminal organizations operate and encouraged what had been, predominately domestic groups to develop into transnational criminal organizations (TOCs).'

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Jimi Peters

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Jimi Peters (2002). Transnational Crimes And National Security: An Overview. LAJOHIS (LASU Journal of History & International Studies), 1(1), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-736109