TRANSNATIONAL

CRIME
 HAI (2013) Defines crime as “the criminal actions
that are implicated with more that one country
involving with group or individuals networks for
operating their illegal business activities by using
violence and corruption”
A crime
perpetrated by
organized criminal
group with the aim
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of committing one ORGANIZED
or more serious CRIME
offense, in order to
obtain directly or
indirectly, a
financial or
material benefit.
 Globalization

 Generally described as the removal

of barriers to cross-national
movement of goods and funds, has
been beneficial for transnational
organized crime networks. The
global forces of supply and
demand have created new markets
for illicit goods and services
provided by criminal organizations
 “Transnational criminals have been
one of the biggest beneficiaries of
globalization.” Globalization
facilitates international trade but
also increases the difficulty of
HOW
regulating global trade; traffickers GLOBALIZATION
and smugglers have exploited this.
Williams adds that globalization AFFECTS
has increased inequality around TRANSNATIONAL
the globe, and that “its disruptive
effect has actually caused people CRIME
to have to go into organized crime
and operate in illicit markets as
coping mechanisms.”
A body of
persons
associated for
some design
and SYNDICATE
undertaking
which is
usually bold
and difficult.
Crime involving
the unlawful
conversion of the ECONOMIC
ownership of
property
CRIMES
belonging to
another person
to one’s own use
and benefit.
A financially
motivated
nonviolent crime
committed for
illegal monetary
gain. It was first
coined by Edwin
Sutherland as a
crime by a person WHITE
of respectability
and high social
COLLAR
status in the course
of his occupation
CRIMES
Fraud, bribery,
Ponzi schemes,
insider trading,
labor racketeering,
embezzlement, EXAMPLES OF
cybercrime, WHITE COLLAR
copyright CRIMES
infringement,
money laundering,
identity theft, and
forgery
 BLUE
Crimes COLLAR
that CRIME
happen on
the streets
everyday
Refer to rimes
committed or
acts omitted that
injure or are
perceived as
injuring the state,
the state’s
government, or
the political POLITICAL
system. CRIMES
 Treason, sedition,
and terrorism
are political
because they
EXAMPLES OF
represent a direct
POLITICAL
challenge to the CRIMES
government in
power. Espionage is
usually considered
a criminal act.
The deliberate
evasion of
environmental
laws and
regulations by
individuals and
companies in the
pursuit of ENVIRONMENTAL
personal interest CRIME
and benefit
 Transnational threat
of environmental
crimes. Environmental
crimes encompass a
broad list of illicit
activities, including illegal
trade in wildlife; EXAMPLES OF
smuggling of ozone- ENVIRONMENTAL
depleting substances CRIME
(ODS); illicit trade of
hazardous waste; illegal,
unregulated, and
unreported fishing; and
illegal logging and trade in
timber.
 1. Transnational political fraud:
Terrorism, corruption, money
laundering, fraud, racketeering.
 2. Transnational Theft: Piracy,
hijacking, counterfeiting
 3. Transnational Illicit Traffic of FOUR BIGGEST
Goods: Trafficking in drugs, AREAS OF
arms and nuclear material,
transnational, environmental
TRANSNATIONAL
crime (wildlife smuggling, CRIME
trafficking in prohibited
chemicals and hazardous toxic
waste);
 4. Transnational Illicit Traffic of
services: Trafficking in persons
and body parts.
 POLITICAL GRAFT- Committed by
political criminals for purposes of
gaining profit through violence or force
for the attainment of political goals.
(Private armies, buying of votes or
threatening voters)
 IN-GROUP ORIENTED ORGANIZED
CRIME- Manned by semi-organized
individual with the end view of attaining
psychological gratification (adolescent GENERIC TYPE OF
gangs) ORGANIZATION
 MERCENARY/PREDATORY OC-
Perpetuates for the attainment of direct CRIMES
personal gain but prey upon unwilling
victims.
 SYNDICATED CRIMES- Comes with a
structured organization that participates
in illicit activity in society using force, or
intimidation.
 POLITICAL GRAFT- Committed by
political criminals for purposes of
gaining profit through violence or force
for the attainment of political goals.
(Private armies, buying of votes or
threatening voters)
 IN-GROUP ORIENTED ORGANIZED
CRIME- Manned by semi-organized
individual with the end view of attaining
psychological gratification (adolescent GENERIC TYPE OF
gangs) ORGANIZATION
 MERCENARY/PREDATORY OC-
Perpetuates for the attainment of direct CRIMES
personal gain but prey upon unwilling
victims.
 SYNDICATED CRIMES- Comes with a
structured organization that participates
in illicit activity in society using force, or
intimidation.
 PROVISION OF ILLICIT GOODS- It is a
category of organized crime that
offers particular products that a
segment of the public desires, but
cannot obtain trough legitimate
channels.
 PROVISION OF ILLICIT SERVICES- It
involves a attempt to satisfy the TYPES OF
public demand for money, sex, and
gambling that legitimate society does ORGANIZED
not fulfill. The specific crime involves:
loansharking, prostitution and CRIMES
gambling.
 INFILTRATION or ABUSE OF
LEGITIMATE BUSINESS- Labor
racketeering and the takeover of
waste disposal companies are two
examples of infiltration of legitimate
business.