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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.
Cross-National and International Efforts to Combat Transnational Crime
Introduction to Part III
In facing global crime we are not powerless. The tools to fight it exist; they have to be adapted and applied.
In the face of crime's globalization, Bossard's statement provides a note of optimism when confronting the daunting task of combating that crime. Although each country may try to counteract transnational crime on its own, it seems more prudent to rely on transnational cooperation. The alternative of relying on a single nation to be the world's police, court, and punisher would have limited effectiveness. Chapters in Part III provide examples of how that cooperation is being achieved at the start of the 21st ...
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