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In this Handbook, editor Philip Reichel has brought together renowned scholars from around the world to offer various perspectives providing global coverage of the increasingly transnational nature of crime and the attempts to provide cooperative cross-national responses. This volume not only has a comprehensive introduction to the topic of transnational crime but also provides specific examples such as international terrorism, drug trafficking, and money laundering to illustrate this ever expanding phenomenon. The Handbook also examines cross-national and international efforts by police, courts, international agencies, and correctional authorities to deal with transnational crime. Part IV concludes the book by addressing emerging issues in transnational crime and justice with particular attention given to transnational organized crime in all regions of the world.
Drug Trafficking as a Transnational Crime
Drug Trafficking as a Transnational Crime
Definitions1
One of the most typical forms of transnational crime is the illegal movement, across one or more national frontiers, of psychoactive substances controlled under three instruments of international law known as the drug control conventions. This is usually known as “trafficking in illegal drugs.”2 Although for most types of crime, the transnational dimension is still the exception rather than the rule, drug trafficking has had—from the very beginning of the international drug control system early in the 20th century—a critical transnational element. For nearly a century, illicit drugs have been trafficked from “producer” to “consumer countries,” usually involving a number of criminal groups from countries along the trafficking chain. The drug trade is, of ...
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