NCJ Number
161891
Journal
Transnational Organized Crime Volume: 1 Issue: 3 Dated: special issue (Autumn 1995) Pages: 43-79
Editor(s)
P Williams,
E U Savona
Date Published
1995
Length
37 pages
Annotation
This report analyzes different strategies and policies adopted at the national level to combat organized crime and examines criminal, regulatory, substantive, and procedural legislation against organized crime.
Abstract
Considering the strategies and policies in a systematic approach as goal-oriented, two goal types (prevention and control) are outlined. Preventive goals include goals pursued to reduce opportunities for accumulating profits through illegal activities and to reduce the vulnerability of societies and governments to infiltration by organized crime. Control goals refer to goals designed to waken, disrupt, and dismantle criminal organizations by prosecuting and convicting their members and tracing and confiscating assets accumulated through or used in illegal activities. Drawing on existing United Nations documents, reports, and resolutions and on the experience of selected countries, the analysis considers conditions and limitations of policies adopted to date and suggests ways of enhancing national capabilities that will respond more effectively to old and new threats posed by transnational organized crime. Crime control methods used by law enforcement are discussed, the importance of intelligence collection is emphasized, and the integration of strategies and policies is viewed as necessary in response to growing dangers posed by transnational organized crime. 24 notes