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International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (issued annually): www.state.gov/p/inl/rls/nrcrpt/ International Organization for Migration: www.iom.int

About the Author

Louise Shelley is a professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and the founder and director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center. She has just published a book entitled Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and is currently writing one on the relationship of crime, terrorism, and corruption. She is the author of many articles and book chapters on different aspects of transnational crime. She serves on the global agenda council on illicit trade of the World Economic Forum.

2 Routine Activities and Transnational Crime

Marcus Felson

Overview

All crime is local. That statement seems to be brusque and to conflict with the existence of transnational crime. But in this chapter I will defend the statement and show how emphasizing that crime is local helps us understand transnational crime to a greater extent.

Every criminal act can be disaggregated into a sequence of events. If this chain or sequence includes a border crossing, it is easily classified as transnational. But that classification does not tell the whole story. One or more elements in the sequence has to occur locally (see Levi & Reuter, 2006; van Duyne & Levi, 2005). Indeed, all crime requires a local focus of action at some point, perhaps at most points in its sequence We expect that most transnational crimes include a chain of

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