CDI 4

ORGANIZED CRIME

JEHUMARK B. DELACERNA
 CAUSE OF TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN AND
SMUGGLING OF MIGRANTS
 CAUSE OF TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN
AND SMUGGLING OF MIGRANTS
 As a general rule, trafficking and smuggling
exploit impoverishedand vulnerable
individuals seeking a better life.
 Factors influencing these criminal
activities
 Those that force people to leave the country
and to resort to trfficking or smuggling service
(push factors).
 Those that make the final destination countries
attractive for those people (pull factor).
 Typical examples
 Destination countries commercial sexual
exploitation and the demand for inexpensive
labor have been increased over the last several
decades, many traffickers who are part of the
criminal networks involved in other
transnational crimes have recognized that they
can profit greatly by supplying people to fill
these demands.
Investigating bodies for transnational
crime
 interpol
 Interpol-its uncertain origin 1898-1910
 Deflem,2001:keonig and das, 2001, mcdonald
1997, nadelmann, 1993; pasas, 1999; sheptycki,
2000, all agree that international patterns of
policing have historical foundations that date
back to at least the 19th century.
 Interpols largest operation trafficking targets
 Historical antecedents of international police
cooperation were various efforts especially on
the european continent
 Established political system such as socialist
democrats, liberals and anarchist.
 Evidence indicates that the development and
growth of international police cooperation for
criminal enforcement duties was facilitatedby
prior practices of cooperation that had been
initiated for political reasons.