ABSTRACT
Aviation and crime is not a relationship than engenders assurance to those who fly. Nor is it a combination traditionally associated with the ‘noble art of flying’. The uncomfortable reality is that the commercialization of aviation has brought with it a corresponding increase in the level of aviation-related criminal activity. Governments and regulators throughout the world have responded to acts of terrorism and sabotage and other antisocial behaviour committed within the aviation industry by creating a broad range of offences and by imposing severe sanctions to dissuade the perpetrators of such crimes.
