ABSTRACT
The concept of 'transnational crime' is exactly a quarter of a century old. The then United Nations (UN) Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch coined the term in order to identify certain criminal phenomena transcending international borders, transgressing the laws of several states or having an impact on another country. In preCongress documentation and the Report of the Fifth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Geneva, 1975, we identified the following categories of transnational crime: crime as business: organized crime, white-collar crime and corruption; offences involving works of art and other cultural property; criminality associated with alcoholism and drug abuse; violence of transnational and comparative international significance; and criminality associated with migration and flight from natural disasters and hostilities.!
