NCJ Number
153019
Date Published
1994
Length
32 pages
Annotation
This document examines the threat posed by transnational criminal organizations, and the steps to be taken to reduce the opportunities available to criminal organizations, to disrupt their operations and indict and punish their operatives, and limit or remove their profits.
Abstract
The report discusses the key concepts of organized crime and transnational criminal organizations, and explains the rise of the latter. There are sections on major transnational criminal organizations, including: the Italian Mafia, Russian organized crime, Chinese Triads, the Japanese Yakuza, Colombian cartels, and Nigerian criminal organizations. The report discusses the activities of transnational criminal organizations, their resilience, their growing sophistication, and their emphasis on strategic alliances. There is a separate section on the threat posed by transnational crime to: sovereignty, societies, individuals, national stability and State control, democratic values and public institutions, national economies, financial institutions, democratization and privatization, development, global regimes and codes of conduct. Notes