ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to examine how actions by individuals, for private gain, become classified as crimes of international significance and how states address the problems of transnational law enforcement. It draws partly on the growing literature on international criminal law (on broader usage of international law see Slaughter et al. 1998), and on the historical studies of three early foci for transnational law enforcement: the control of piracy, the slave trade and drug trafficking. It also analyses the development of international crime control concerns by the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU).
