Discuss the nature and concepts of transnational crimes.

You should be able to identify the major

transnational crime groups and their operations

Reflection Paper

The figure of human beings living together on the planet grows every year, and so does the
number of interactions among them. The enormous preponderance of these exchanges is genuine
and valuable, but a substantial share is not. The evolution of global crime is a threat to the rule of
law, without which there can be no viable world development. Transnational criminal markets
crisscross the planet, conveying drugs, arms, even trafficked women, toxic waste, stolen natural
resources or protected animals’ parts. Hundreds of billions of dirty money flow across the world
every year, distorting local economies, corrupting institutions and fueling dispute. What people all
over the world wish each other at the beginning of a new year, health, peace and prosperity, is what
transnational organized crime markets annihilate, bringing instead disease, violence and despair to
exposed regions and vulnerable populations. Transnational crimes are crimes that have definite or
probable impact across national borders and crimes that are intrastate but transgress fundamental
values of the global community.