che.3 Reflective Response: Transnational Crimes

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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeLinks to an external site. (Organized Crime Convention) guardian of the and the three Protocols – on Trafficking in Persons, Smuggling of Migrants and Trafficking of Firearms – that supplement it. This is the only international convention, which deals with organized crime.

Just some of the types of transnational crime are drug trafficking, kidnapping, human trafficking, human slavery, counterfeit goods, goods smuggling, piracy, cyber-attacks, money laundering, trading in stolen art, the trading of exotic animals, and other criminal activities.

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Choose an area of transnational crime about which you would like to learn more. Before you begin your research, write down what you know about the area you have chosen and the laws which govern or affect it.

Next, do some research and find out what is happening in your chosen arena of transnational crime. Analyze the effectiveness of the approaches you’ve discovered with regards to stopping your chosen transnational crime. Once you have completed your research and analysis, reflect upon what you learned and whether you the information you discovered confirmed your prior thoughts on the topic.