ABSTRACT
The authors conclude there are three difficulties to duplicating a wholly domestic investigation and trial through cooperation treaties between a country where an organized crime group may reside and the country that the organized crime group may victimize. The legal arrangements and social and political understandings needed for complicated, long-term organized crime investigations may not be present in both countries. Second, in general, only one of the countries—the one being victimized—is sufficiently concerned or affected by a crime to take responsibility for the investigation. Third, the prosecutors and investigators from the victim country simply may not trust the prosecutors and investigators where the organized crime group is situated.
