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A nine page paper which looks at the way in which law enforcement agencies and the criminal justice system could reassess their priorities in terms of dealing with organised and local crime, with particular reference to drug trafficking and drug abuse.
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forms of organized crime, which cause it to pose specific problems for the criminal justice system of a country. For example, much organized crime is transnational, which means that it
needs to be addressed both on a domestic level and with regard to interaction with the law enforcement systems of other nations, and those who have international jurisdiction. It has
always been the case that big crime syndicates are able to operate from several national bases simultaneously, but over the past decade there has been a considerable increase in the
ease with which this can be accomplished. With the advent of mass global communication and the Internet, it
is becoming even more difficult to trace and identify criminals who operate on a world-wide scale. Even with such systems as Carnivore and Echelon which are designed to track the
electronic communications of such individuals and pre-empt criminal activity which is being planned. However, even though these systems have had some success in identifying communications between terrorists, it is obviously
impossible (and not necessarily ethically desirable) to scan every email which is sent for possible criminal references and act upon it. Organized crime has, therefore, been able to extend its
international scope quite considerably since the spread of Internet communication. In addition, international travel has itself grown in scale since the advent of the global village and transnational employment, which
also allows greater opportunities for smuggling and transmission of goods and information. It is difficult to assess the extent
of the impact which organized crime has on particular countries, since, as Juliet Berg (2001) points out, its effects are not always immediately visible in society as a whole. Such
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