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Specialists from different countries are hired to help with transport, money laundering, and the information technology needed to encrypt their communications. Colorful examples of this globalization of Colombian organized crime include the Tarzan case in the United States in which a Russian organized crime figure was prosecuted for working with members of Colombian drug trafficking organizations to purchase Russian submarines and other technology to facilitate their activities. This operation failed. Russian scientists were subsequently imported to Colombia to build a submarine (Lintner, 2002).

Summary and Conclusion

Globalization has contributed to an enormous growth in crime across borders as criminals exploit the ability to move goods and people. Technologies, such as satellite and cell phones, the Internet, and the Web, have been used to facilitate communication among criminals. Although the narcotics trade has been international for a long time yet it has increased significantly with globalization. Globalization has also contributed to an enormous increase in the following categories of crime: human smuggling and trafficking, arms trafficking, trafficking in art, counterfeit goods, credit card fraud, and counterfeiting. Money laundering has increased dramatically in the globalized economy; the illicit funds move along with the licit funds and are frequently hidden in the numerous offshore financial havens that have proliferated in recent decades.

The problems that have caused this globalization of crime are very deep-seated. They result from the enormous disparities in wealth among countries, the rise of regional conflicts, and the increasing movement of goods and people and the increasing speed and facility of communication. States have little capacity to fight this transnational crime because state laws are nation-based but the criminals are operating globally. References

Andreas, P. (2000). Border Games Policing the U.S.–Mexico72% of sample

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