Organized crime threatens multiple facets of the United States, including the economy and national security. In fact, the Organized Crime Council was reconvened for the first time in 15 years to address this continued threat. Organized crime has taken on an increasingly transnational nature, and with more open borders and the expansion of the Internet, criminals endanger the United States not o...

The article is devoted to the study of information security against threats transnational organized crime. Organized crime a potential and major threat national our country. relevance research topic determined by fact that not only potential, but also real security, state sovereignty, provision human citizen rights freedoms. Transnational phenomenon limited borders one state, affects global hum...

Transnational organized crime has become a burning issue for the international community past decade. Money laundering, human trafficking, drug terrorism and firearms smuggling are examples of illicit dealing committed by criminal groups their material or other gain at expense rest society. The evasiveness complicity illegal organizations committing such crimes have compelled United Nations to ...

Many of the flows described in this study can affect grandscale geopolitical events. Cocaine trafficking has fed instability in Guinea-Bissau; firearms trafficking has fueled a rebellion in northern Mali; maritime piracy threatens to undermine commerce in the Gulf of Guinea. These flows demonstrate that transnational organized crime has truly risen to the level of a security threat in West Africa.

This article argues that the best counterattack against globally oriented transnational organized crime (TOC) is by a global response. The contribution of participating states and the creation of a collective identity against TOC are both necessary. This creation would be more effective through transnational social movements. Therefore, activating the global justice movement (GJM) against TOC w...

The trafficking of women has been a lucrative moneymaker for transnational organized crime networks, ranking third, behind drugs and arms, in criminal earnings. The U.S. military bases in South Korea were found to form a hub for the transnational trafficking of women from the Asia Pacific and Eurasia to South Korea and the United States. This study, conducted in 2002, examined three types of tr...