CIAO DATE: 05/2009
April 2007
In most people’s view, it is violent crime—not terror, war, disease or famine—that represents the single greatest threat to their personal security. That threat is increasingly global: the globalization of transportation, communications and finance has benefited not only licit business, but also professional criminals, allowing them to organize transnationally. As a result, crime is transforming from a threat to personal security into a strategic threat to national and international security. But even as crime is transnationalized, crime control remains largely corralled behind national borders.
Resource link: Transnational Organized Crime: Multilateral Responses to a Rising Threat [PDF] - 2.0M