Crime & Globalisation News

TNI Expert Seminar on Money Laundering, Tax Evasion and Financial Regulation, Amsterdam, June 12-13, 2007.
The seminar will look at the effectiveness of the Anti Money Laundering (AML) regime that has been built over the past two decades, and the more recent attempts by states and international organisations to control tax evasion, capital flight and curb tax avoidance and harmful tax competition.

The Global Fix
The Construction of a Global Enforcement Regime
Crime and Globalisation Programme
TNI Briefing Paper 3, October 2005

In this issue of Crime & Globalisation, Michael Woodiwiss and Dave Bewley-Taylor track the history of the concept of organised crime and its metamorphosis into a ‘transnational’ phenomenon allegedly posing a serious threat to global world order. They show how the United States has dominated the construction of a global enforcement regime by interlinking concepts of drugs prohibition and combating organised crime.
Spanish version:
La componenda global. La construcción de un régimen global de control
Italian version:
An Italian version of the briefing is published in a series by Fuoriluogo, a monthly magazine that is distributed with Il Manifesto newspaper.

Reducing drug related crime: An overview of the global evidence, Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme (BFDPP) Report.
This report, the 5th in the BFDPP series, looks at the global evidence base for the reduction of drug related crime. The report looks at three types of drug related crime (violence associated with illegal drug markets, crimes committed by individuals under the influence of drugs, and petty crime committed by drug users to pay for their drug purchases), and attempts to summarise the current research knowledge on which policies and actions have (or have not) been effective in reducing their impacts on society. The report concludes that many drug policy initiatives that have been designed to reduce drug related crime have had little or no impact, but there are some promising signs of success with treatment based, or general crime reduction approaches.

G8 and Security, June 2005
The G8 is one of the forums the US and the other major industrial powers use to push international institutions and less powerful nations to adopt policies that invade on civil liberties. Tom Blickman tracks this practice of "policy laundering" - as it avoids the scrutiny of a regular democratic political process - and calls for the reinvigoration of the concept of human security.

Global Enforcement Regimes: Transnational Organised Crime, International Terrorism and Money Laundering
Expert seminar organised by the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, 28-29 April 2005
The seminar will look at the developments in the multilateral agreements and conventions on drug control, money laundering, transnational organised crime and terrorism and their dangers for civil liberties, human rights and sovereignty, and the question of who is setting the agenda on these issues.

The Ecstasy Industry: Exploring the Global Market
TNI Briefing Paper 9, December 2004

Ecstasy will become Public Enemy No. 1 in the period ahead, according to the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Mr. Antonio Maria Costa. However, little is known about the illicit ecstasy industry. Figures produced by the UNODC seem to be over-exaggerated. In this briefing, TNI will take a close look at the figures of the global ecstasy market, as well as the position of The Netherlands in synthetic drug production and trafficking. An attempt will be made to try to explain why Dutch groups have gained and maintained prominence on the global ecstasy market since its genesis in the late 1980s.
Spanish version: La industria del éxtasis: Desarrollos del mercado mundial
A summary of the briefing was published in the June 2005 issue of the Italian magazine Narcomafie: Si fa presto a dire Olanda - Il mercato globale delle droghe sintetiche