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Criminal Justice Legal Issues International Term Paper
Pages:5 (1861 words)
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Subject:Law
Topic:Legal Issues
Document Type:Term Paper
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Human smuggling is a huge problem with an obvious domestic impact; the size of illegal immigrant population in the United States demonstrates how pervasive the problem is. However, it is not the size of the problem that is the most alarming; in an age of global terrorism, human smuggling provides a method for terrorists to enter a country undetected. The fact that so many non-terrorists use the same means makes it virtually impossible for local law enforcement agencies to truly control human smuggling.
The last significant transnational crime is money laundering. Money laundering is the method whereby money obtained from illegal transactions is legitimized. For example, an organized crime ring that has derived its money from drug trafficking may own a series of businesses and report a greater income from those businesses in order to legitimize revenue so that more money can be spent without triggering criminal investigation of the source of that money. Money laundering is such a tremendous problem because many countries do not place restrictions on the source of money and have no triggering mechanisms for the investigation of laundering schemes. In contrast, in the United States, the use of a large amount of cash triggers reporting and investigating mechanisms.
References
Reno, J. (2000) Reducing illegal firearms trafficking. Retrieved April 24, 2007 from U.S.
Department of Justice
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United Nations. (2007). Organized crime. Retrieved April 24, 2007, from the United Nations
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School of Law
Web site: http://www.droitcivil.uottawa.ca/world-legal-systems/eng-civil.php
University of Ottowa. (2007). Common law. Retrieved April 23, 2007, from University of Ottowa School of Law
Web site: http://www.droitcivil.uottawa.ca/world-legal-systems/eng-common.php
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References
Reno, J. (2000) Reducing illegal firearms trafficking. Retrieved April 24, 2007 from U.S.
Department of Justice
Web site: www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bja/180752.pdf
United Nations. (2007). Organized crime. Retrieved April 24, 2007, from the United Nations
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