Combating International Crime

<p>The realities of international law enforcement are widely misunderstood and generally mystifying to the uninitiated. Combating cross border crime is a dynamic aspect of criminal justice that is becoming increasingly complex and directly relevant to national and local level policing. Unfortunately most practitioners and policy-makers are unaware of the challenges involved in investigating and prosecuting criminals across frontiers. Professional experience of combating international crime is still restricted to relatively few.</p><p>Globalization and technological advances have removed a great many obstacles to trade but they have also facilitated access to new markets for criminal entrepreneurs whilst offering a reduced risk of detection and prosecution. International criminal activity has always had a significant and direct if somewhat obscured impact on the national and local crime picture. Without effective or coordinated cross-border strategies to redress the balance the risk and damage caused by international criminal activity will continue to increase unabated.</p><p><em>Combating International Crime</em> maps the practicalities and challenges in making cross-border law enforcement work. Addressing the prevention detection investigation and prosecution of crime or criminality which is conducted in more than one country it provides a professional assessment and describes the essential ingredients of international law enforcement cooperation. It identifies the needs implications and consequences of a comprehensive strategy against international crime and contains case studies by way of illustration and example. </p>