ABSTRACT
Crime has been a silent partner in modernization. Globalization creates new and favorable contexts for crime. Crimes benefit from opportunities not dissimilar to those enjoyed by multinational enterprise beyond the jurisdiction of the individual state and the limitations of single markets. The globalization of capital from money to the electronic transfer of credit, of transactions of wealth from the exchange of property to info-technology, and the seemingly limitless expanse of immediate and instantaneous global markets, have enabled the transformation of crime beyond people, place, and even identifiable victims.
