Transnational Organized Crime

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UNODC’s first global transnational organized crime threat assessment (TOCTA) (The Globalization of Crime: A transnational organized crime threat assessment, published in
2010) spoke of two ways of looking at organized crime. The first, and more common, is to focus on the groups involved.
The global TOCTA found, however, that most transnational organized crime is rather systemic, or market-based.
As long as supply and demand exist, removing particular intermediaries is not sufficient to destroy the market. This is especially true in a globalized

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