TY - BOOK AU - Hauck,Pierre AU - Peterke,Sven TI - International Law and Transnational Organised Crime SN - 9780191053474 AV - K5240.I584 2016 U1 - 345.02 PY - 2016/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Organized crime--Law and legislation KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- International Law and Transnational Organised Crime -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Table of Cases and Other Decisions -- Table of Legislation -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- I. General Questions -- 1. The Historical Evolution of the International Cooperation against Transnational Organised Crime: An Overview -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Organised crime: theoretical considerations -- 1.2 Early Beginnings -- 1.2.1 Piracy and privateering -- 1.3 Institutionalization in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century -- 1.3.1 Slave trade and human traffic -- 1.3.2 Trafficking in humans -- 1.3.3 Trafficking in organs for transplantation -- 1.3.4 Opium -- 1.3.5 Interpol -- 1.4 Modern Era -- 1.4.1 Transnational organised crime and the financial markets -- 1.4.2 Organised crime control and global crime governance -- 1.5 Regional Arrangements -- 1.6 Harmonization -- 1.6.1 Transnational vs international crimes -- 1.6.2 World Society Theory -- 1.6.3 Rationalization -- 1.6.4 Police and technology -- 1.6.5 Random collection -- 1.6.6 Cryptography -- 1.6.7 Extradition -- 1.7 Fragmentation? -- 1.7.1 Waste: present and future opportunity and risk -- 1.8 Final Observations -- 2. Transnational Organised Crime: Concepts and Critics -- 2.1 Transnational Organised Crime as a Linguistic and Social Construct -- 2.1.1 What does transnational organised crime denote? -- 2.1.2 What does transnational organised crime connote? -- 2.1.3 The exclusion of certain sociological issues -- 2.2 Conceptions of Organised Crime: A Phenomenology -- 2.2.1 Two meanings -- 2.2.2 Recent developments -- 2.2.3 Distinguishing organised crime from other phenomena -- 2.3 Conceptions of Transnational Organised Crime -- 2.3.1 The phenomenology of transnational and international crime -- 2.3.2 Legal aspects of transnational and international crime; 2.3.3 Significant elements, areas of activity, and manifestations -- 2.3.4 SOCTA 2013 and the current situation in Europe -- 2.4 Looking to the Future -- 2.4.1 Introduction -- 2.4.2 Key factors -- 2.4.3 Changes to types of offending -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3. Transnational Organised Crime and its Impacts on States and Societies -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Assessment of Difficulties -- 3.3 Conditions for the Flourishing of TOC -- 3.3.1 Legal conditions -- 3.3.2 Institutional conditions -- 3.3.3 Socio-.economic conditions -- 3.4 TOC and its Impact on Societies -- 3.4.1 Direct vs indirect impacts -- 3.4.2 Moral panics and TOC -- 3.4.3 Organised exploitation -- 3.5 TOC and its Impact on States -- 3.5.1 Economic impacts -- 3.5.2 Political impacts -- 3.5.3 Impacts on the rule of law -- 3.6 Final Observations -- 4. The EU and the Fight against Organised Crime -- 4.1 Origins -- 4.1.1 Transnational organised crime-.appearances and dangers -- 4.1.2 European criminal policy -- 4.2 Legal Bases -- 4.2.1 The Maastricht Treaty -- 4.2.2 Treaty of Amsterdam -- 4.2.3 Treaty of Lisbon -- 4.2.4 Primary EU law -- 4.2.5 Secondary EU law -- 4.3 Institutionalizing Cooperation against TOC -- 4.3.1 Europol -- 4.3.2 Eurojust -- 4.4 Final Observations -- 5. Transnational Organised Crime and Terrorism -- 5.1 Historical Evolution of Terrorism -- 5.1.1 Eighteenth-. and nineteenth-.century precedents -- 5.1.2 Nationalist-.separatist terrorism -- 5.1.3 Social revolutionary terrorism -- 5.1.4 Religious terrorism -- 5.1.5 Concluding considerations -- 5.2 Concept of Terrorism -- 5.2.1 The international law on terrorism -- 5.2.2 Remaining definitional problems -- 5.3 The Distinction between TOC and Terrorism -- 5.3.1 Links between TOC and terrorism-.the debate on the crime-.terror continuum -- 5.3.2 Applicability of the international law on terrorism to TOC -- 5.3.3 Conclusions; II. UN Core Conventions on Transnational Organised Crime -- 6. The Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 1988 and the Global War on Drugs -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Organised Crime and International Drug Trafficking -- 6.3 Prohibition and the Global Drug Control Regime -- 6.4 Early Attempts to Establish a Global Drug Control Regime -- 6.5 The Creation of the International Drug Convention System, 1961-.88 -- 6.6 The Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 1988 -- 6.7 Undermining the Conventions -- 6.8 The Road to Reform of the Conventions -- 6.9 Conclusion -- 7. The UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime 2000 -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Development of the UNTOC -- 7.3 Criminalizing the Organisation of Serious Crime for Benefit -- 7.3.1 From organised crime to organised criminal group -- 7.3.2 Defining the organised criminal group (OCG) -- 7.3.3 Defining 'transnational' -- 7.3.4 From every crime to serious crime -- 7.3.5 The scope of application -- 7.4 Offences in the UNTOC -- 7.4.1 The double strategy-.basic crimes and organisational/.infrastructural crimes -- 7.4.2 Participation in an OCG -- 7.4.3 Money laundering -- 7.4.4 Corruption -- 7.4.5 Obstruction of justice -- 7.4.6 Corporate liability -- 7.4.7 Penalties -- 7.4.8 Confiscation -- 7.4.9 Legality or over-.criminalization? -- 7.5 The Provisions for International Cooperation -- 7.6 Implementation -- 7.7 Final Observation -- 8. The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons 2000 -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Through a Gendered Lens-.The Development of Trafficking Instruments until 2000 -- 8.3 The United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children -- 8.3.1 Development and drafting of a new instrument; 8.3.2 Trafficking in persons as a transnational crime -- 8.3.3 Effective remedy for and protection of victims of trafficking -- 8.3.4 Prevention -- 8.3.5 Cooperation in a common effort: states and NGOs -- 8.3.6 The UN Protocol and public international law -- 8.4 Implementing the Protocol -- 8.5 Conclusions -- 9. The UN Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air 2000 -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Evolution and Background -- 9.2.1 Background and settings -- 9.2.2 Outline of the protocol -- 9.3 Definitions and Terminology -- 9.3.1 'Smuggling of migrants' -- 9.3.2 'Financial or other material benefit' -- 9.3.3 Smuggling of migrants vs trafficking in persons -- 9.4 Criminal Offences, Article 6 -- 9.4.1 General requirements for all offences -- 9.4.2 Penalties -- 9.4.3 Offence of smuggling of migrants, Article 6(1)(a) -- 9.4.4 Producing, procuring, providing, or possessing fraudulent travel or identity documents, Article 6(1)(b) -- 9.4.5 Enabling illegal stay, Article 6(1)(c) -- 9.4.6 Extensions to criminal liability, Article 6(2) -- 9.4.7 Aggravations, Article 6(3) -- 9.5 Exemptions and Limitations of Criminal Liability -- 9.5.1 Humanitarian smuggling -- 9.5.2 Smuggling of family members -- 9.5.3 Non-.criminalization of smuggled migrants, Article 5 -- 9.6 Smuggling of Migrants by Sea -- 9.7 Prevention, Cooperation, and Other Measures -- 9.8 Protection of Smuggled Migrants -- 9.8.1 Protection of the rights of smuggled migrants -- 9.8.2 Assistance to smuggled migrants -- 9.8.3 Refugee and human rights law -- 9.9 Observations and Conclusions -- 9.9.1 Concepts and criminalization -- 9.9.2 Cooperation -- 9.9.3 Protection of smuggled migrants -- 9.9.4 Non-.party states -- 9.9.5 Concluding remarks -- 10. The UN Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components, and Ammunition 2001; 10.1 The Social Problem of Firearms Regulation and the Municipal Criminal Law Response -- 10.2 The Movement for International Firearms Regulation -- 10.2.1 Negotiations for international illicit firearms regulation generally -- 10.2.2 Regulation of illicit firearms relating to organised crime -- 10.3 Analysis of the Key Provisions of the Protocol -- 10.3.1 Preamble -- 10.3.2 Part I-.general provisions -- 10.3.3 Part II-.prevention -- 10.3.4 Part III-.final provisions -- 10.4 Negotiating History of the Protocol -- 10.4.1 Preamble -- 10.4.2 Part I-.general provisions -- 10.4.3 Part II-.prevention -- 10.4.4 Deleted provisions -- 10.5 Implementation of the Protocol and Subsequent Developments -- 10.5.1 Impact of the Protocol on international practice -- 10.5.2 Beyond the Protocol -- 10.5.3 Final observation -- 11. The United Nations Convention against Corruption and its Criminal Law Provisions -- 11.1 Origins of the UNCAC -- 11.2 Significance and Scope -- 11.3 Mandatory Criminal Law Provisions -- 11.3.1 Bribery of national public officials (Article 15) -- 11.3.2 Bribery of foreign public officials and officials of public international organisations (Article 16) -- 11.3.3 Embezzlement of property by a public official (Article 17) -- 11.3.4 Laundering of the proceeds of crime (Article 23) -- 11.3.5 Obstruction of justice (Article 25) -- 11.4 Non-.Mandatory Criminal Law Provisions -- 11.4.1 Trading in influence (Article 18) -- 11.4.2 Abuse of functions (Article 19) -- 11.4.3 Article 21: bribery in the private sector -- 11.5 Review Mechanism and Implementation -- III. Other Relevant International Regimes and Issues -- 12. Transnational Organised Crime and the Anti-.Money Laundering Regime -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Money Laundering Concept -- 12.3 The Global Anti-.Money Laundering Framework -- 12.3.1 The development of international standards; 12.3.2 The international legal framework N2 - Examining the various sources of law that form this area of growing academic and practical importance, International Law and Transnational Organised Crime provides readers with a thorough understanding of the key concepts and legal instruments in international law governing transnational organised crime UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4706460 ER -