NCJ Number
157491
Date Published
1995
Length
18 pages
Annotation
This report, a supplement to the Fourth United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of the Criminal Justice Systems, analyzes the responses to a survey completed by States, intergovernmental organizations, and nongovernmental organizations regarding the extent and impact of transnational criminal activities on the environment.
Abstract
The survey results indicated that more States are attempting to examine and define the characteristics, international features, profit-making aim, and other attributes of transnational crime. Areas of particular concern to responding States included increases in computer crime, crimes resulting from the exploitation of technology, environmental crime, smuggling of illegal aliens, piracy, and hijacking. The results are discussed in terms of the establishment of an early law enforcement warning system, improvement of statistics on crime, training of statisticians, the accurate measurement of the costs of transnational crime, and the need to establish an ad hoc group to determine how the second supplement on transnational crime should be conducted. 2 tables and 15 notes