Transnational Crime

Transnational and organized crimes are considered to be the violations of laws. For a transnational crime to take place it would require more than one country to be involved in the planning, its execution, and the impact must also be felt by other countries. Because of the multinational culture of transnational crimes, they are considered to be different from other crimes and this can at times be a partial roadblock in defining their causes, as well as developing preventative measures and mitigating factors. The birth of the phrase “organized crime” seems to have emerged in 1919 when bootlegging gangs were on the rise in Chicago, this phenomenon is far pre-dated but has developed ever since it was first mentioned, but the term transnational

took away one of the largest international guarantors for insurgent coordination worldwide, this left many of the members of these failed insurgencies jobless and on the breadline so with a desperate need for money they often turn to a life of crime. This period then gave way to the rise in Globalization and with it the development of organized criminal groups. “just as the business world benefitted from globalization, so has organized crime” Albanese j. transnational crime and the 21st century p.1, transnational and organized crime groups are now more trained and fully equipped and took full advantage of this opportunity to be more productive due to globalization. Globalization gave transnational crime groups the access to large quantities of the economical scale. By the mid-1990’s the systems that were implemented by the Soviet Union became obsolete and gave way to all types of threats, both new and old to nation-states. With the rapid growth of issues inherited from the post-cold war days this led to the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational crime (Organized Crime Convention) in 2003 this convention was implemented to assist the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, this convention had no solid definition of transnational organized crime nor did they have a list of the crimes classified of such. The reason

A large amount of funds associated with transnational crimes can compromise legally governed economies and sometimes influences politicians and public figures through corruption and the payment of bribes. Year after year there are a countless amount of fatalities associated with transnational crimes, the adverse effects when put together can undermine the security and stability within governments. It is imperative for international nations to continue to work closely together to mitigate these serious problem facing us today. Transnational organized crimes are not like conventional crimes such as (murder, robbery, and rape), persons who are victims of transnational crimes are unlikely to approach and make complaints to the police about organized crimes, persons are reluctant because of the fear of