The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has launched a report on The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment in New York on 17 June 2010.
This report can be accessed at:
http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/tocta/TOCTA_Report_2010_low_res.pdf
This threat assessment of transnational organized crime looks at major trafficking flows, including drugs (cocaine and heroin), firearms, people trafficked for sex or forced labour, natural resources, counterfeit products as well as maritime piracy and cyber-crime. It shows how, using violence and bribes, international criminal markets have become major centres of power and features a number of high-impact maps and charts that illustrate illicit flows and their markets.
Producing this Report was a challenge due to the fact that evidence on the subject has thus far been limited and uneven. “Despite the intrinsic difficulty of doing research on crime, UNODC was able to document the enormous power and global reach of international mafias”, said Mr. Costa.
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