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The world has become small. Air passenger traffic raised from 600 billion to 1,000 billion man-miles in the period between 1992 and 2010. World imports increased from $3,500 billion in 1990 to $13,500 billion in 2010. Billions of dollars daily change hands by electronic transfer, and nearly half of this wealth is concealed from taxmen in order to keep its origin secret.

When criminal acts, deals and schemes violate the laws of more than one country, they are said to be transnational crimes. Transnational crime is a defining issue of the 21^st century for policy makers – as defining as the Cold War was for the 20^th century and colonialism was for the 19^th. Terrorists and transnational crime groups proliferate because these crime groups are major beneficiaries of globalization. They take advantage of increased travel, trade, rapid money movements, telecommunications and computer links, and are well positioned for growth.

The UN has classified all transnational crimes into 17 groups. Among them are follows: money laundering, terrorism, theft of art and cultural objects, illicit arms trade, hijacking, fraud in insurance, trade in humans and human organs, drug trafficking, corruption, cybercrime and some others.

This classification reveals the underworld’s strong impact on private individuals, on certain economic sectors, and on the world economy as a whole. Such crimes are horrible that they can become unbearable to humanity in the future. Both individuals and businesses must take immediate action to protect themselves against the perils posed by the underworld.

The UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice believes that it is urgently necessary for countries to extradite criminals and put them on trial, promptly exchange information on criminal activity, provide technical assistance to one another for crime prevention purposes, and take more stringent measures to prevent cross-border activities by criminals and smugglers of firearms, explosives, and substances that can be used in making nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. The world’s nations must also expose such activities more vigorously.

1. What crimes are called transnational crimes?

2. Why are terrorists and transnational crime groups major beneficiaries of globalization?

3. What is the relationship between globalization and transnational crime?

4. The UN has classified all transnational crimes into 10 groups, hasn’t it?

5. What does the UN classification reveal?

6. Is it possible to combat transnational crime effectively?

7. What organizations exist to combat transnational crime?

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