Transnational Organized Crimes

Transnational Organized Crimes are illegal big businesses such as weapon smuggling, human and drug smuggling and trafficking, and fraud and corruption. TOC’s have been studied for decades by the government agencies, and now local and state law enforcement are involved as the eyes and ears in the communities. This is very important when looking into the research and finding out where and why TOC’s can grow and expand as rapidly as they have been.

Gaps in the literature can be seen when it comes to finding solutions on how to combat TOC’s domestically and internationally, and in finding consistency in targeting the problems and solutions on TOC’s and negotiating them globally. The United States targets TOC’s, gathers research, and is moving

Some theories that were mentioned previously were from Thozama Lutya and Mark Lanier’s article, An Integrated Theoretical Framework to Describe Human Trafficking of Young Women and Girls for Involuntary Prostitution. One that was focused on was the Rational Choice Theory, which is the idea that individuals have preferences and make their own choices. Another theory that was mentioned was the Demand Theory. This theory analyzes and explains prostitution and human sex trafficking and the high demand for each. The textbook, The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, written by Edward R. Kleemans, and edited by Letizia Paoli, analyzes and explains several more theories that surround Transnational

The Rational Choice Theory, based on the theory that people can make their own choices regardless of the consequences, and the Illegal Enterprise Theory, that looks into the similarities of illegal and legal businesses, analyzing both in terms of Organized Crimes, are two great theories that can answer both of these questions and give vital information into Transnational Organized Crimes, why they have been able to exist for so long, why they are so damaging to national security, and what can be done to deter, combat, and or eradicate these crimes in the future. Having foreign and domestic leaders consistently on the same page with concerns and solutions on Transnational Organized Crimes will allow this global issue to be more focused on, combatted, and or possibly eradicated on a global