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Transnational Crime & Globalization

Transnational Crime & Globalization. 5 Main Categories. What is it? Organized Crime Counterfeit Goods Environmental Crime Human Trafficking Smuggling of Migrants Categories not mutually exclusive ¤. Organized Crime. 2 Kinds 1) Crime groups Mafia Cyberterrorists Pirates

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Transnational Crime & Globalization

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  1. Transnational Crime & Globalization

  2. 5 Main Categories What is it? • Organized Crime • Counterfeit Goods • Environmental Crime • Human Trafficking • Smuggling of Migrants • Categories not mutually exclusive ¤

  3. Organized Crime 2 Kinds 1) Crime groups • Mafia • Cyberterrorists • Pirates • Counterfeiters • Traffickers ¤

  4. Organized Crime 2 Kinds 2) Illicit markets • Consumer goods • Drugs • Heroin, cocaine, etc. • Firearms • Criminal, political • Conflict goods • Diamonds, cocoa beans, ivory, etc. ¤

  5. Counterfeit Goods 2 Types • Consumer goods • Foods • Electronics • Perfumes • Medicines Issues: • Violate IPR • Can be dangerous ¤

  6. Environmental Crime Resource trafficking • Timber • Wildlife • Animal parts • Live exotic animals • Banned foods • Shark fins, frogs, etc. Illegal dumping • Hazardous waste • E-waste • Garbage ¤

  7. Human Trafficking • Slave labor • Prostitution • Indentured servants • Nannies, housekeepers, etc. ¤

  8. Smuggling of Migrants For labor • Forced • Illegal immigrant labor Political refugees • Asylum seekers • Civil war migration ¤

  9. Key UN Agencies

  10. GN Agencies • EUROPOL • EU Observatory on Counterfeiting & Piracy • US State Dept.: Office to Monitor & Combat Trafficking in Persons • UK Human Trafficking Centre ¤

  11. Fighting Transnational Crime Why is fighting transnational crime so difficult? • Agree on ‘crime’ • Implement policy • Monitor activities • Enforcement • Coordination • Corruption • Who pays? • Cost to GS countries • Infrastructure • Relocating to less regulated states ¤

  12. Fighting Transnational Crime • Dual-purpose goods • Illegal drugs opium morphine • Some are legal in home state • Coca - Andes • Guns • Difficult to identify sources of goods • Elephant tusks • Counter groups immerge • Disband one, another forms • ‘Victimless crimes’ • DVD IPR warnings ¤

  13. Fighting Transnational Crime • Judicial review • Whose jurisdiction? • Where to imprison? • Addressing root problems • Supply and demand • Wealth disparities • Addressing issues rather than fighting criminals • War on drugs ¤

  14. Recap • 5 types of crimes • Globalization facilitates crime • IGOs • Fighting crime: Int’l law issues

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