NCJ Number
145493
Date Published
1992
Length
22 pages
Annotation
The United Nations Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Strategies to Deal With Transnational Crime met in Smolenice, May 27-31, 1991.
Abstract
Participants reviewed recommendations made by the Eighth UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders; discussed practical cooperative strategies and policies at the subregional, regional, and international levels; and examined other modalities of international cooperation. The expert group recommended that governments should conclude bilateral and multilateral agreements to carry out or enhance the effectiveness of extradition proceedings and mutual assistance in criminal matters, given the increasing gravity of organized crime, terrorism, and other transnational crimes. The process of studying transnational crime should consider factors including political, economic, and social variables, as well as the role played by international business in the creation of common markets and other forms of integration. Governments should agree to share information and intelligence, consider establishing a national organization to oversee their domestic crime prevention program, and formulate effective policies dealing with environmental crimes, art thefts, money laundering, and corruption.