ABSTRACT
This book is an outgrowth of research done over a five-year project at Ritsumeikan University on human security carried out with a grant for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. It represents a real international collaboration. It develops from previous work published in 2001 by two of the contributors to this volume, Kan Ueda and Shiro Okubo, entitled Criminal Justice under Challenges: Crimes and Human Rights in the Borderless Society (Tokyo: Nippon Hyoron Sha) and from previous work of Louise Shelley and her collaborators at the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC). Over the course of five years, with support from this project, many international scholars came to Ritsumeikan from Asia, North America, and Europe to present their research and exchange ideas and analysis on transnational crime and human security. The following institutions played a key role in its international development: the Washington College of Law and TraCCC of the American University, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, the University of British Columbia Law School, the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, Canada, and organizations of the United Nations. The results of this project were published in a four volume set in Japan called Human Security and Transnational Organized Crime (Nihonhyoronsha, 2007).
