The Transnational Crime Of Drug Trafficking

Both domestic and international measures are somewhat effective in dealing with international crime. Both crimes against the international community and Transnational crimes represent both positive outcomes in dealing with international crime, thus, exemplify issues in key areas. Through intergovernmental organizations such as the International Criminal Court and Operation Sovereign Borders (OSB), international crime Is effectively dealt with. Hence, problems such as extradition and people smuggling are hard to contain. These four issues will also be discussed in light of key effectiveness criteria, including equality, access, resources and the protection of rights.

In the last decades, narco trafficking and organized crime had emerged as the main security threats in Latin America. Deviant globalization increase their power by establishing connections with similar organizations in other parts of the world, like cocaine distribution networks, for example. This perceived danger increases the pressure on the governments for effective solutions, and some of them consider that these problems had overwhelmed the capabilities of the local police. Consequently, the intervention of military forces would be necessary to secure the stability of the countries. However, the use of force as the only solution is the outcome of a misunderstanding of the root causes that generates them. This paper presents the research for a general pattern in the region that is helpful to understand how the civil society perceives the failures of governance and how the networks of illegal activities exploit this perception.

The globalization of crime has become a renowned problem for the law worldwide; as societies become more interconnected, an act in one country can have repercussions in another which is across another continent. This is primarily down to technological developments, as nowadays communication between countries is simple compared to decades ago. Alongside this transport is also a major problem, as it means that illegal activities can take place in more than one country as goods are transferred between the two, allowing the criminal world to reach all corners of the world.

The asymmetrical theory by Naim says that the differences between the government and that of transnational crime creates asymmetry (Naim,2005). Different government agencies are organized in a hierarchical relationship that functions consistently from the top to the bottom (Naim,2005). Governments must often follow legal processes that take up time and cost money. These governments are forced to follow budget constraints, as well as legal and political reservation (Naim,2005). These governments must operate within the control of their constitution. In comparison, these transnational crime groups operate in less harsh structures, and are able to have more flexibility in their decision-making, as well as have unlimited funds available to them. The government’s

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The United States has one of the most profitable drug markets in the world. “As such, it attracts the most ruthless, sophisticated, and aggressive drug traffickers” The United States has such a demand for illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, marijuana, MDMA, and methamphetamine, that traffickers will do about anything to sneak in the drugs into the country. The majority of the drugs are brought into the country from the border between Mexico and the U.S.A. These drugs are supplied mainly from Mexico, and Colombia. According to the U.S Drug Enforcement Agency, the price of a kilogram of cocaine ranges from $13,000 to $25,000. That is about 2.2 pounds of cocaine. With that kind of profit, we can for sure know that as long as there is demand

Every year approximately 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders, and yet no one really knows how many people are affected by trafficking. Mostly because it is a severly covert and very underground issue. Being the second largest crime in the world oday secind only to drug trafficking. Usually when people are trafficked, they become forced to wor and sometimes sell their bodies enduring countess hours of mental physical and sexual abuse with no food or pay to keep them going.

Tackling the War on Drugs (CD) and Combating Transnational Crime Organizations (TCO) is an important national security problem. While addressing this issue in a scholastic forum, I immersed myself into this problem set using the guidance of assuming the role of Colonel Tim Killian. Utilizing the provided case and the ADIA framework and course concepts, I reviewed and assessed the information presented. The goal of Joint Task Force North (JTFN) J-5 is to develop a “strategy for military support to counter drug efforts and more broadly fight transnational organized crime.”

What is the first thing that comes into your mind when you hear of the region Latin America? Poverty, violence, drugs? Latin America is a major region where drugs are generated, imported, and exported. The general stereotype with regards to Latin America is that the region is drug infested due to the history of use, the problems regarding drug trafficking, and the continued statistics proving the ongoing use of drugs. Despite the fact that not every country in Latin America fits in this mold, history and data supports this impression.

”Global crime is intertwined with revolutionary technological, financial, communications, economic, cultural, and political changes that characterize globalization, and it is increasingly difficult to separate criminal activities from legitimate global transactions. As national boundaries become more absorbent and as different legal and political systems are more integrated, uncertainties about the legality of various activities abound. What some countries regard as serious problems are often viewed as lower priorities for others. Furthermore,

Although the issue in Mexico of combating against drugs trafficking organizations (DTOs)1 in other words transnacional criminal organizations (TCOs)2, is not a new topic for the Mexican’s government, in the last decade these said criminal asociations, have changed their modus operandi as a result of the strategy in 2006 by the former Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, who deployed fifthy thousands of troops between navy, army, and air force these last two involved in marijuana and poppy erradication in the last 40 years throughout the country, as well ten of thousands federal police for assiting of the local law enforcement forces to combat this problem, the main reason for using the armed forces in these operations, was because this

Transnational crime is a growing problem. Transnational crime is defined as “self-perpetuating associations of individuals who operate transnational for the purpose of obtaining power, influence, monetary and/or commercial gains, wholly or in part by illegal means, while protecting their activities through a pattern of corruption and/ or violence, or while protecting their illegal activities through a transnational structure and the exploitation of transnational commerce or communication mechanisms.” (National Security Council, n.d.) . Transnational crimes are known under other names such as cross-national crime, global crime, international crime, and

Imagine sitting in class taking a test just like any other normal test day, and suddenly you look up and see a big drug gang arresting 43 of your fellow classmates. You probably read this and think “That’s impossible, the police won’t allow it” but on September 26, a drug gang just did what you thought was impossible. The drug gang allegedly abducted and killed 43 students in Mexico’s Southern Guerrero State. This picture makes me think of injustice. I feel this way because I close my eyes and imagine me being right there, in that square with the photographer. It makes me feel injustice because I see tons of pictures of missing citizens and notice that more are missing then more are being found. It truly sets a scar in my heart seeing a wrong do no right.

This essay will discuss some threats transnational organised crime have to Southeast Asian states. By comparing to traditional security paradigm threats, this essay will argue that in order for states to combat transnational organised crime, they must consider and use traditional and non-traditional means. First, this essay will present the security paradigm of traditional security. In this section, this essay will discuss the points of, the focus traditional security has on the protection of the state and traditional security threats such as external military forces. Secondly, this essay will present the non-traditional security paradigm; discussing the people-centred approach of non-traditional security, and non-traditional security threats. Thirdly, this essay will focus on security challenges of transnational organised crime on Southeast Asian states, discussing the challenges human trafficking, drug trafficking, corruption and bribes, and illegal logging. At the end of each of the organised crime security challenges, this essay will discuss how these challenges differ from traditional security threats.

Over the recent past, there has been major growth in illegal trafficking of humans, firearms and most importantly drugs (UN, 2012). These kinds of trafficking are characterized by greater organisation levels. They are also denoted by the presence of criminal groups and chains. Though these activities are not new, both the geographic area and scale of the present problem is unprecedented. The value of illegal trade in 2009 throughout the world was about $1.3 trillion (Jenner, 2010). Drug smuggling is a major concern wherein it has major adverse effects due to the large illegal profits it produces (Jenner, 2010). In different drug production regions and transit areas, criminal groups disregard state authority and exiting laws by promoting corruption, affecting the economy and compromising elections (UN, 2012). Using the UK as a case in point, this paper describes drug smuggling, its development, and the effects, the challenges for investigators and judicial processes and strategies to manage with the problem.