Unit VIII, Question 11
Transnational crime is a crime with multiple meaning, which is consider to be crime committed in one or more states, but extensive part of its preparation, planning, direction or control takes place in another state (Bohm & Haley, 2008, p. 532). It is an organized crime that have spread across borders that involving groups working in more than one country to arrange and carry out criminal dealing speculations. Transnational organized crime groups have also been involved in hijacking, terrorism, and civil wars (Bohm & Haley, 2008, p. 535). Some significant criminal activities of transnational crime groups are noticeable in numerous varieties, including as cybercrime, trafficking in drugs, attempt to damage government organizations, money laundering, smuggling weapons and even persons. For example, criminals over and over again use the internet to commit a large amount of offenses known as cyber crimes such as the recent activity of the Target scandal. In which thieves stole over 40 million of Target’s customer credit card numbers, and unfortunately I was one of the victims of that incident. Despairingly, in the future law enforcement agencies should enhance their fight against transnational organized crime.
References
Bohm, R. M., & Haley, K. N. (2008). Introduction to criminal justice (5th ed.). McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Cyber crime is a major concern facing the general public today, due to the fact that you have a lot of people trying to infiltrate the government, the high increase on identity theft online and the high increase on credit card scam. For example, if military personnel leave there Common Access Card (CAC) card in their computers and a criminal steal the card give them access to lots of government document. Those issue requiring law makers and law enforcement agencies to take action throughout our nation. I think everyone should be aware of cyber threats and the actions they can take to protect their own information. The President recently
References: Bohm, R. M., & Haley, K. N. (2008). Introduction to criminal justice (5th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Brenner, S. (2004). U.S. cybercrime law: Defining offenses. Information Systems
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