Introduction

This Handbook is a collection of short chapters by experts in their particular fields on the legal regimes that make up transnational criminal law. It is not dedicated to the criminology of transnational organised crime, the policy responses to transnational crime, or the study of transnational law enforcement.¹ Although the chapter authors in differing degree touch on many of these topics, it is primarily a book about the legal rules, both the international frameworks and the national implementing legislation, that make up the normative skeleton of the system that attempts to suppress harmful activity that crosses borders or threatens to do so.