ABSTRACT
Spurred on and empowered by globalization, transnational crime has developed from an issue with relevance for national or, at most, regional criminal law to a priority for states and international organizations. For example, President William J. Clinton addressed transnational organized crime as a threat to the United States in 1995, as did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in February 2012. In many disciplines, but especially in criminology and international relations, it has become a necessity to understand global crime governance-in other words, the operation of criminal networks and of the networks created to neutralize them.
