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  • Cooperation against Organized Crime

    Cooperation against Organized Crime Build International Capacity, Cooperation, and Partnerships against Transnational Organized Crime Sustainable progress against transnational organized crime (TOC) requires both political commitment and effective law enforcement and criminal justice capacities on a worldwide basis. Transnational organized crime threatens the security and well-being of people around the world and jeopardizes the functioning of…

  • Financial Crime

    Financial Crime Money laundering and terrorism financing are the two most common forms of financial crimes in developing countries. In recent years, worldwide efforts to combat these financial crimes have assumed heightened importance and gained greater visibility. These are global problems that not only threaten security, but also undermine economic prosperity by compromising the stability,…

  • Financial Crime

    Financial Crime Money laundering and terrorism financing are the two most common forms of financial crimes in developing countries. In recent years, worldwide efforts to combat these financial crimes have assumed heightened importance and gained greater visibility. These are global problems that not only threaten security, but also undermine economic prosperity by compromising the stability,…

  • Environmental Crime

    Environmental Crime Environmental Crime: Factors for Presecution in the United States Introduction to Factors to be Considered Where the law and evidence would otherwise be sufficient for prosecution, the Attorney for the Department should consider the factors contained herein [1], to the extent they are applicable, along with any other relevant factors, in determining whether…

  • Environmental Crime

    Environmental Crime Environmental Crime: Factors for Presecution in the United States Introduction to Factors to be Considered Where the law and evidence would otherwise be sufficient for prosecution, the Attorney for the Department should consider the factors contained herein [1], to the extent they are applicable, along with any other relevant factors, in determining whether…

  • Cybercrime

    Cybercrime is one of the fastest-growing criminal activities on the planet. Cybercrime is defined as the use of any computer network for crime and the high-tech criminals of the digital age have not been slow to spot the opportunities. The scope of the definition becomes even larger with […]

  • Transnational Organized Crime

    Transnational Organized Crime Transnational organized crime (TOC) poses a significant and growing threat to national and international security, with dire implications for public safety, public health, democratic institutions, and economic stability across the globe. Not only are criminal networks expanding, but they also are diversifying their activities, resulting in the convergence of threats that were…

  • Crime against international law

    Crime against international law   1 Advancing International Criminal Law : The Special Court for Sierra Leone Recognizes Forced Marriage as a ‘New’ Crime against Humanity Micaela Frulli Journal of International Criminal Justice Volume 6, Number 5, November 2008 p.1033-1042 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 2 Gender, Persecution, and the International Criminal Court : Refugee…

  • International criminal law: Organized Crime and Narcotics

    International Criminal Law :Organized Crime and Narcotics 1. Major Treaties and Documents United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988. United Nations Draft Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. Council of Europe, Convention on laundering, search, seizure and confiscation of the proceeds from crime of 8 November 1990, ETS No. 141.…

  • UN Security Council

    UN Security Council The Council is composed of fifteen member states, five of them permanent members and specified by name in the Charter. These are the United States, Russia (replacing the Soviet Union in 1991), China, the United Kingdom, and France. The rest are elected for two-year terms […]

  • Europol

    "In full operation since 1999, Europol is associated with the European Union as the result of a decision by the political and legislative bodies of the Union. EuropolÂ’s activities are legally framed and bound to certain areas of investigation. Yet, Europol is nonetheless […]

  • Interpol

    International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) Interpol-Washington "Presently providing cooperation among police agencies of 181 nations, Interpol is in the United States represented by the U.S. National Central Bureau, also called Interpol-Washington, which is directed by the […]

  • International Narcotics Control Board

    International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) It is an independent, quasi-judicial expert body established by the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 by merging two bodies: the Permanent Central Narcotics Board, created by the 1925 International Opium Convention; and the Drug […]

  • Anarchism

    Anarchism, political theory that is opposed to all forms of government. Anarchists believe that the highest attainment of humanity is the freedom of individuals to express themselves, unhindered by any form of repression or control from without. They hold that the perfection of humanity will […]

  • Child Pornography

    Hello "Research and policy on the criminal aspects of pornography has in most recent years focused almost all of its attention on child pornography, especially as a result of the important role played therein by the internet as the medium that has greatly eased the distribution of such […]