Organized Crime

This time the trans-national organized crimes are growing larger and larger. The UN are trying to prevent it by making the Palermo Convention.
Palermo Convention
 Backgrounds :
- Globalization and new technologies create the same new opportunities for crime as for legitimate avticities.
- Crimes as money laundering, traffiking in human beings and corruption are a serious and growing problem.
- Groups are bigger, more transnational with indications of networking and involved in a wider range of criminal activities
- Transnational nature of the problem requires transnational solution.

 Convention’s Structure :
- Defines and standarizes terminology
- Requires states to have specific crimes
- Specific control measures
- Cooperation
- Training
- Prevention
- Technical provisions (signature, ratification, etc)

 Convention’s Scope :
- Made to countermeasure the crimes that defined in article 5, 6, 8 and 23, another serious crimes that defined in article 1 and 2.
- Only if the crime was in the transnational dimention and entangled the organized crime.